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All M. Night Shyamalan Movies Ranked. M. Night Shyamalan broke through into the mainstream with his second-feature, the late ’90s horror phenomenon The Sixth Sense.
- The Last Airbender
- Wide Awake
- After Earth
- Glass
- Praying with Anger
- Lady in The Water
- The Happening
- Old
- Knock at The Cabin
- The Visit
Okay, well, here's the one Shyamalan film you can disregard wholesale. The Last Airbender, a big-budget adaptation of the beloved cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender (blame one Mr. James Cameron for the first word's removal), is ugly, sloppy, and anonymous. It's poorly lit, choppily edited, and problematically cast. Desperate voiceover tries to smoo...
Wide Awake is kind of a pre-genre trial run for many of Shyamalan's pet themes he'd explore in later, more successful films. Hooky premises culminating in a twist; precocious, wounded children; Catholic-filtered ruminations on faith and betrayal; a chapter title that literally reads "signs" — Wide Awake, if nothing else, is proof positive that Shya...
After Earth has a contemptible 11% on Rotten Tomatoes— and I'm the only one brave enough to say "that's a little unfair!" Unfortunately, one of After Earth's largest problems is smack-dab in the center. Jaden Smith, now one of our most engaging and altruisticmusical performers, is our vehicle for the picture's dystopian action-sci-fi thrills, and h...
My expectations for Glass were sky-high. But as the film lurched on, they slowly began to shatter. It's the surprise threequel to a superhero franchise I didn't understand Shyamalan was building; the grandest and most metatextual plot twist of them all. It's the cumulative catharsis of three powerful characters played by three powerful movie stars:...
Shyamalan's first feature film, Praying With Anger, stars the man himself as Dev Raman, an Indian-American student who travels to India, learns about the oft-fraught differences between these two cultures, and tries to find a constructive place to put all of his negative, resentful emotions. In some ways it's Shyamalan's simplest and most explicitl...
Lady in the Water doesn't make a lick of sense. It's a bonkers, silly screwball comedy full of eccentric characters crossed with a deadly serious grown-up fairy tale full of earnest stares. It's full of odd mythology-building and fantastical terms to quickly learn and cram, but still stubbornly stuck in a need to feel grounded and "real." It's beyo...
Speaking of being a fan of bad cinema: Most of my favorite entries in the genre attain their campy pleasures and intrigue by an inherent tension between a filmmaker's desires and abilities. Movies like The Room become classics because the artists involved want desperately for their work to achieve greatness, but they do not possess the control to h...
Old puts an eccentric group of characters on a beach where people rapidly age, and lets 'em rip. This is in some ways a spiritual sequel to The Happening — something high-concept is "happening" to a group of eccentric characters defined in archetypes (to the point where one character meets people by asking them bluntly what their occupations are; h...
Sometimes, it's better for Shyamalan to keep things simple. In Knock at the Cabin, an adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay's novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, Shyamalan is left to one location, a cast of seven characters, and the implication that what happens in this house will alter the rest of the world. It gives Shyamalan both the massive stak...
The Visit is Shyamalan stripped to the bone, but it is still very much Shyamalan; in fact, the sparseness of the film makes the filmmaker's idiosyncracies pop even harder. Many of Shyamalan's horror works feel indebted more to the past than to their contemporaries, but in this 2015, he puts on the modern suit of "low-budget found footage," takes it...
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Feb 3, 2023 · M. Night Shyamalan has made a lot of movies, including The Sixth Sense, Glass, Unbreakable, and Split. Which are Shyamalan’s best movies? Where does his new movie Knock at the Cabin rank?
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- The Sixth Sense (1999) Shyamalan's big break came with the absolute game-changer of The Sixth Sense, a film whose narrative impact continues to resonate decades after its release.
- Unbreakable (2000) When we think of superheroes, the go-to image is often a brash, bold, and even flamboyant character with a distinct costume, catchphrase, and dramatic entrances and exits as they save whoever needs help.
- Split (2016) In an absolute tour de force series of performances that could have earned an Oscar nod if not for the Academy's hesitancy in recognizing the horror genre, James McAvoy leads Split as Kevin Wendell Crumb, who suffers from the controversial (and here, misrepresented for our entertainment) dissociative identity disorder.
- The Visit (2015) As Shyamalan's only found footage horror movie to date, The Visit follows the young Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) and budding documentarian Becca (Olivia DeJonge), who decides to make a film about their family as they visit their grandparents for the first time.
- “Unbreakable” (2000) Following up “The Sixth Sense” was always going to be an impossible task. But instead of going the easy route, Shyamalan did something different and more difficult.
- “The Sixth Sense” (1999) Imagine having your first film barely open and a year later your sophomore feature becomes a worldwide box office phenomenon and garners six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Shyamalan.
- “Signs” (2002) Maybe Shyamalan’s most straightforwardly entertaining movie, “Signs” takes the typical alien invasion movie scenario and zeroes it into one family in one farmhouse.
- “The Village” (2004) The last film of Shyamalan’s Disney movies is, in some ways, his most ambitious and, at the same time, most frustrating. Set in a remote Pennsylvania village in the 19th century, which is governed by a strict series of rules set to keep the villagers safe from monsters that live in the woods outside their walls.
Nov 28, 2022 · We’ve done it with some big twists – but now, let’s take a look at the entire repertoire of M. Night Shyamalan movies that he has done since 1992, ranked from worst to best.
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Feb 8, 2023 · Here’s every M. Night Shyamalan movie, ranked best to worst: 1. The Sixth Sense (1999) Featuring great performances by Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment, along with a legitimately...
