Shyamalan again proves that he's a master of suspense and dread, and a great student of film.
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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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
It's a heartening idea put forth in a formulaically appealing way.
08/02/02
Interesting, entertaining, and good.
08/02/02
Shyamalan sure knows how to creep a guy out.
08/02/02
Leave it to M. Night Shyamalan to take our expectations for a movie, turn them upside down, and still deliver a work surpassing anything we’d dared hope for.
08/02/02
Most of the film is quite entertaining, mixing scares with welcome bits of humor, but the ending fizzles.
08/02/02
Shyamalan comes roaring back with the scariest movie I've seen since The Others.
08/02/02
An old-fashioned scary movie, one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts.
08/02/02
The ham-fisted tale is so overdone it borders on insulting, with more than a few odd missteps denting the film along the way.
08/02/02
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08/02/02
Shyamalan is a considerable talent, but he's become too powerful too young. The sign I discern hanging over his career at the moment reads Wrong Way.
08/02/02
The film abandons its delicate ambiguities, its focus on everyday things, to deliver a resolution whose structure can only look contrived and reductive.
08/02/02
Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock's imaginative flight to Shyamalan's self-important summer fluff.
08/02/02
It has a way of seeping into your consciousness, with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at.
08/02/02
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08/02/02
The problem is that Signs manages to be both so terribly serious and so unimportant at the same time.
08/02/02
A beautifully crafted, white-knuckle, roller-coaster ride of old-school filmmaking.
08/02/02
Shyamalan understands the power of suggestion better than most directors, showing only as much as necessary to feed the suspense.
08/02/02
The work of a born filmmaker, able to summon apprehension out of thin air.
08/02/02
Top CriticIt's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5.
08/02/02
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