[The love story] between the two young, uncorrupted stars suffuses the entire movie and has made me forgive, if not forget, the movie's flaws.
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01/13/05
The Village (2004)
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Reviews Counted:194
Fresh:82
Rotten:112
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: The Village is appropriately creepy, but Shyamalan's signature twist ending disappoints.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE finds the renowned writer-director crafting a suspenseful story of a small community whose inhabitants are plagued by fear of the unknown forest that surrounds... [More]
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Reviews for The Village
... a Sleepy Hollow-like folk tale that is light on character development and heavy on symbolism and suggestion.
12/31/04
...an enigma to which each viewer must bring something and from which each viewer will most likely take something away. In my case, I brought a lot more than I took away.
12/27/04
Still one inventive, scary and heartfelt movie.
11/09/04
If you're willing to follow Shyamalan wherever he goes in his inquiry into how the US got so terrorism-fixated, he leads you into provocative, if uneven, territory.
11/02/04
Es el típico ejemplo de cómo una película puede (o intenta) manipular a su audiencia y hacerle creer que va a ver una cosa cuando en realidad se trata de otra bien diferente.
10/20/04
How I wanted to flee the dreadful 'Village' after its first 20 minutes. What happened? It's the story. It's the direction. It's Shyamalan.
10/16/04
The Village est la première réelle déception provenant de Shyamalan.
10/07/04
Definitivamente no será recordada entre lo más selecto de su filmografía, pero si gustan del género y del sudor frío, esta es una obligada.
09/20/04
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09/13/04
Top CriticThe Village is an enormous disappointment -- not because the ending is so banal, but because Shyamalan has become a director who no longer trusts his talent.
09/08/04
The film's biggest disservice is Shyamalan's uneven, confusing script that concludes with a surprise, but a dismal one.
09/05/04
the color Red is forbidden because it attracts Those We Do Not Speak Of - except, apparently, for all of the Red herrings Shyamalan has left strewn about
09/04/04
Shyamalan deveria abandonar a carreira de roteirista e dedicar-se apenas à de diretor: seu talento é grande demais para ser desperdiçado em tramas cada vez piores.
09/02/04
A well-meaning, half-hour Twilight Zone episode stretched to the outer limits of a two-hour feature.
08/23/04
In this election year, our cinemas have been overrun by insincere communities headed by dissemblers-in-chief.
08/19/04
Unfortunately, the chills here are poorly thought out, and the plot twists are more predictable than interesting.
08/17/04
...doesn’t even begin to ignite the protrusive passion that trademark Shyamalan films are known for...a solitary thrill-maker in search of an imaginative spark
08/16/04
Shyamalan’s best film to date.
08/16/04
Shyamalan made a big impression with his out-of-the-blue twist in his first blockbuster, but now I wonder if he's capable of anything else but twists.
08/15/04
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