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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Reviews for Signs
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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 |
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Crap circles. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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A- |
I come away from Signs exhilarated by Shyamalan's skill at keeping his audience guessing. Full Review |
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1/10 |
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 |
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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 |
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4/4 |
great Full Review |
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2/5 |
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 |
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4/4 |
Gibson gives one of the best performances of his career... Full Review |
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One may never get the answer that they seek, but they will be scared out of the wits when searching for one. Full Review |
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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 |
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3/5 |
How apt for a film called Signs that Shyamalan should have plusses and minuses the whole way through. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Being known for "Big Twist Endings" may label you a one-trick pony, but one trick is better than no tricks. Full Review |
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4/5 |
[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 |
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3/4 |
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 |
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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 |
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