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Signs (2002)

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Reviews Counted:218

Fresh:161

Rotten:57

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some frightening moments

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Theatrical Release:Aug 2, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $227,935,522

Synopsis: It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are... It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are changing the lives of the Hess family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), awake early one morning to find the dogs barking and the children--Bo, and her brother Morgan (Rory Culkin)--wandering bleary eyed in the corn fields. They discover a pattern of perfectly carved crop circles left the night before. Trying not to overreact, Graham ignores the media frenzy that has permeated all television and radio stations, and even shrugs off the oddly familiar information that Morgan reads in his book about extraterrestrials invading earth. The real challenge for Graham is to find the faith he needs to pull himself, and his family, through this unexplainable series of events. SIGNS is the long-anticipated film from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (THE SIXTH SENSE, UNBREAKABLE), a suspenseful and uniquely chilling family story. [More]

Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones, M. Night Shyamalan, Patricia Kalember

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: Frank Marshall, Sam Mercer
Composer: James Newton Howard
Studio: Touchstone Pictures

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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

An anti-Independence Day, a cousin of Close Encounters, but most of all, a well-modulated, dread-laden, faith-based mystery. [Blu-Ray]

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
06/01/08
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Crap circles.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment 7 Comments
08/05/07
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

Individual sequences generate an eerie tension that's always deflated, creating a jarring stop-and-go rhythm, and the atmospheric trickery never strays beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
06/06/07
Hank Sartin
Hank Sartin
Chicago Reader
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Shyamalan is technically a superb film-maker, for all that he's picked up most of his tricks from Spielberg and Hitchcock.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out

I come away from Signs exhilarated by Shyamalan's skill at keeping his audience guessing.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

The one good thing about it is that it’s over in one hour and 47 minutes. The bad thing is to think what a terrible waste it was of an hour and 47 minutes.

Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | comment Comment
10/07/04
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com

A gripping and well-made thriller that preserves Shyamalan’s winning streak and shows us, as all the best films do, a world that we’re familiar with and believe in, and yet we’ve never seen, and by which we’re endlessly fascinated.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
02/01/04
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
FilmStew.com

great

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment Comment
01/10/04
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

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Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/06/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Shyamalan fancies himself a philosopher whose stories have deep and important meanings that need to be conveyed to audiences as slowly and heavy-handedly as possible.

Full Review Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette | comment Comment
01/01/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Gibson gives one of the best performances of his career...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
08/01/03
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

One may never get the answer that they seek, but they will be scared out of the wits when searching for one.

Full Review Source: BlackFilm.com | comment 1 Comment
05/13/03
Wilson Morales
Wilson Morales
BlackFilm.com

Shyamalan has done it again. He's taken a well-used genre, the alien invasion, and given it a spin that focuses on the human psyche rather than the surrounding events.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment Comment
04/24/03
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

How apt for a film called Signs that Shyamalan should have plusses and minuses the whole way through.

Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
04/16/03
Harry Guerin
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Being known for "Big Twist Endings" may label you a one-trick pony, but one trick is better than no tricks.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/19/03
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

[Shyamalan's] treatment doesn't always make perfect sense, but what his film lacks in logic is more than made up for in atmosphere.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

Signs may be lightweight and fragile in comparison to Sense and even to Unbreakable for that matter, but nobody can deny the eye-popping quality to this exquisite soul-searching drama.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
02/04/03
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

A great movie. People went to Signs expecting to see intestines, and what they got was heart, and a lot to think about.

Full Review Source: KFOR Channel 4 News | comment Comment
01/16/03
Blake Davis
Blake Davis
KFOR Channel 4 News
 
 
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