A low-key triumph of mood and menace.
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10/31/07
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
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Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 103
Rotten:19
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus: M Night Shayamalan's The Sixth Sense is a twisty ghost story with all the style of a classical Hollywood picture, but all the chills of a modern horror flick.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In M. Night Shyamalan's THE SIXTH SENSE, Bruce Willis plays Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a successful Philadelphia child psychologist who is haunted by the sudden reappearance and suicide of a former patient. Months later Dr. Crowe encounters... [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Reviews for The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan neutralizes Willis's star presence with impressive plotting that's a fine excuse for the powerful atmosphere.
06/26/07
Top Critic An effectively understated and moodily engrossing ghost film with a surprisingly satisfying jolt at the end.
04/27/07
Top Critic The screenplay, with its terrific scares and its amazing double-whammy at the end, is a grand achievement.
05/26/06
A poignant study of the searing pain caused by loss, this all-too-human horror film provokes tears as well as fears.
02/09/06
Top Critic Intelligence and substance in a summer horror flick? Who'd of thought it.
04/09/05
The Sixth Sense will convince you that spooky movies can be exciting, chilling, mysterious, and rewarding.
01/15/05
Much more than a one-trick puzzle movie… the logic holds emotionally and narratively, and Shyamalan brings satisfying closure to all his characters and their sorrows.
10/29/04
Elegantly shot, admirably acted, and well-scored... but when The Sixth Sense leaves the character-study path, its weaknesses and essential arrogance are most obvious.
07/28/04
Shyamalan relies on gradually charging the atmosphere until an electrifying ending.
05/30/03
This disturbing thriller is distinguished by the moving performance of Haley Joel Osment.
05/20/03
It is the only film I've seen that gives you the creeps and the warm fuzzies all at the same time.
02/08/03
I'd like to say that writer/director M. Night Shyamalan is a stunning new voice and talent working in Hollywood today. Unfortunately, that pronouncement will have to wait for at least one more film.
12/08/02
Intricate, intimate thriller is full of superb performances, deft direction.
11/07/02
At its heart it is an intense, moving, thoughtful drama about the mysterious relationship between an exceptional little boy and a psychologist who wants to help him.
10/15/02
This is much more than a scary movie or a ghost story. It's a riveting psychological thriller about death and its manifestations.
09/10/02
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