Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
3 |
...a colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a premise so transparent it would be laughable were the movie not so deadly solemn. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
6 |
...a big, creepy dollhouse of a movie--a sometimes engrossing shocker with a surprise ending that isn't especially shocking or surprising. |
E!
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7 |
...if you want to be scared and actually think about a movie for more than five minutes after you finish watching it, enter The Village. |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
7 |
...it can be an experience that tries your patience, but it'll undoubtedly have you talking about it to your friends once it's over. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
4 |
Shyamalan's portentous period thriller wrings a few thrills from cliched elements, but collapses under the weight of an unsatisfying ending. |
Reel
Tim Knight |
6 |
...a film wherein the whole is sadly less than the sum of its eerie parts. |
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich |
0 |
...hands down the year's worst film. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
7 |
...even when its step falters, is on to something more provocative than seeing dead people. |
Entertainment Weekly
Mark Harris |
6 |
...has the hermetic quality of a talented filmmaker bouncing ideas off the inside of his own skull. |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
4 |
The film's ridiculousness would not be so irksome if Mr. Shyamalan did not take his sleight of hand so seriously, if he did not insist on dressing this scary, silly, moderately clever fairy tale in a somber cloak of allegory. |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas |
4 |
It's tedious instead of provocative and so unconvincing as to be preposterous. |
People
Leah Rozen |
5 |
...plays like an episode of The Twilight Zone with an inflated budget. |
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor |
4 |
...this undeniably talented writer-director has been repeating himself with steadily decreasing potency ever since the wonderful The Sixth Sense, and his latest excursion does nothing to buck the trend. |
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson |
4 |
...it's a film a White House full of evangelicals could've written, given a little prodding, a little pot, and a day-long Twilight Zone marathon. |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
8 |
...its skillful fusion of Grimm fairy-tale horror and pointed social parable find Shyamalan in peak form. |
Maxim
Paul Ulane |
3 |
We get it. You like to craft surprise endings. But would it be too much to ask for a decent movie to go along with them? |
Premiere
Aaron Hillis |
5 |
This gothic thriller is regrettably about as terrifying as an episode of PBS's Frontier House. |
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