Articles tagged "m. night shyamalan"

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The Happening

by Jake Meaney

[10.Nov.08] :. Watching this is rather like watching the grass grow. And blow in the wind. And trees. Bushes. Hedges. Blowing. You get the idea.

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The Happening

by Todd R. Ramlow

[13.Jun.08] :. The Happening features an effectively stylized physical environment: rarely have clouds drifting overhead and wind blowing through trees and a sunny day been filmed so ominously.

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Mess Hysteria: The Happening vs. The Signal

by Bill Gibron

[12.Jun.08] :. Newsweek Magazine must still be smarting. Back in 2002, as Signs was gearing up for its box office assault, the publication called M. Night Shyamalan “The Next Spielberg”....

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Will M. Night Shyamalan’s new R-rated film scare up bigger box-office numbers?

by David Hiltbrand [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Jun.08] :. As he waits for his beverage at a Starbucks along West Chester Pike, the portly, middle-aged businessman has no idea of the sinister plot being hatched behind his back. Less than a yard away sits...

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Film Review

Lady in the Water (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.06] :. Story's whiter-than-white skin, bloody cuts, color-shifting hair, and need to keep wet make her a bizarre amalgamation of fantasies, alternately "male" and "childish."

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The Village (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jan.05] :. 'I have to keep doing things that scare me, and this certainly scares me,' says M. Night Shyamalan.

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The Village (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. Noah is so wrapped up in his own emotions that he seems, at first, the most literal embodiment of the film's critique of a post-9/11 American isolationism.

 

Signs (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.02] :. PULL.

 

Unbreakable (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Unbreakable' might be best described as 'Die Hard' for art-house audiences.