Signs will creep you out for two hours, give you the galloping heebie-jeebies, tear some screams from your throat and haunt your nightmares for a long time to come.
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08/02/02
Signs (2002)
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Reviews Counted:218
Fresh:161
Rotten:57
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are... [More]
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Reviews for Signs
121 - 140 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
It's a smart, skillful movie from a writer-director who's only 31 years old, but already a master of blending the chills of fright with the warmth of love.
08/02/02
Despite its various problems that prevent it from being as terrific as it often seems it might be, the film is still quite entertaining.
08/02/02
Turns out to have few thoughts and no thrills.
08/02/02
It asks us to turn our heads into fields of corn, to be cropped by Norman Rockwell Shyamalan.
08/02/02
Certainly works as The Birds disguised as Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
08/02/02
If you like a film that provokes thought and feelings, and features real people with real problems, Signs more than qualifies.
08/02/02
A flawed but well-intended throwback to the creaking-door school of thrillers.
08/02/02
A deeply weird film, accomplished, gripping, disorienting, icily adept and barking mad at once.
08/02/02
One creep fest of a movie.
08/02/02
If you look at Signs as a whole package and not on individual terms, then the result is a worthwhile and thought-provoking experience.
08/02/02
There’s plenty here that testifies to Shyamalan’s exceptional talent.
08/02/02
While you're experiencing the film there's no denying that Shyamalan is a master at sinking the hook and reeling an audience along; we're caught on an ever-escalating ride of suspense and terror.
08/02/02
For at least the first two acts, it's an engrossing film.
08/02/02
This is one of Gibson's finest, most mature and heartfelt performances and it won't go unnoticed come Oscar time.
08/02/02
A heartfelt movie that deals more nakedly with [Shyamalan's] core concerns than any of his other Hollywood films, and it doubtlessly will deeply touch many people as well as frighten them.
08/02/02
There's fun to be had by all, and although the ending really sucks, there are more than enough scares and jokes to make the rest worthwhile.
08/02/02
A complex story told with assurance and performed with quiet conviction, Signs smoothly and stylishly blends scares and substance.
08/02/02
The soul-searching deliberateness of the film, although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit, eventually becomes too heavy for the plot.
08/02/02
It's a much more emotional journey than what Shyamalan has given us in his past two movies, and Gibson, stepping in for Bruce Willis, is the perfect actor to take us on the trip.
08/02/02
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