Unbreakable

Somberly fantastic new mystery thriller.Read Full Review »

I was hooked from beginning to end.Read Full Review »

It's rare that a a movie leaves you pinned to your seat, wanting to see it again -- right now, this minute -- to work out the pieces of the puzzle. Unbreakable is one of those movies.Read Full Review »

Mr. Shyamalan may be the only mainstream director hankering for success with a need to understate; he is like Shaq without the tattoos. The result is a mastery of craft that may leave some hungry for more.Read Full Review »

Even if the ending doesn't entirely succeed, it doesn't cheat, and it comes at the end of an uncommonly absorbing movie.Read Full Review »

A film that begins with a train wreck and then, figuratively speaking, becomes one.Read Full Review »

Shyamalan's style is so exaggerated, with its long pauses and exacting rhythms of sound- vs.- silence, that it easily can engender eye-rolling and snickers.Read Full Review »

Soggy mysticism, nagging inconsistencies, and coarse horror-playbook jolts.Read Full Review »

For its perilous ambitions, Unbreakable has to be admired, but any ending that succeeds only in pulling the rug out from under a credulous, trusting audience has to be laughed at and called out for the extravagant nonsense that it is.Read Full Review »

It would be foolish to deny that Unbreakable has scenes that make you jump, but without anything resonant to apply that skill to, the film has no option except squandering its technique.Read Full Review »