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The Village (2004)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:18
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: The Village is appropriately creepy, but Shyamalan's signature twist ending disappoints.
Theatrical Release:Jul 30, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $114,170,863
Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE finds the renowned writer-director crafting a suspenseful story of a small community whose inhabitants are plagued by fear of the unknown forest that surrounds... [More]
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Reviews for The Village
Top CriticFor those who just want a good scare, rest assured the best (and worst) of it comes across as Wait Until Dark meets The Blair Witch Project.
08/08/04
Top CriticShyamalan, far from being a master of suspense, hasn't yet figured out that the shadowy things you glimpse out of the corner of your eye are always scarier than those you're allowed to gaze upon directly.
08/07/04
Top CriticAnother mediocre lunacy from the overrated M. Night Shyamalan.
08/05/04
Top CriticSo meaningless and distanced in its details that it hardly stands a chance of wooing even the most willing fellow traveler.
08/03/04
Top CriticThe Village doesn’t pack quite the punch of The Sixth Sense, but it’s equal to Shyamalan’s last two films.
08/02/04
Top CriticIt's the lack of a genuine wizard behind the curtain that robs The Village of much of its suspense, but the movie has merits that go beyond goosebumps.
07/30/04
Top CriticThis is bad, amateur work given a superficial veneer of professionalism.
07/30/04
Top CriticFor those who like the director's body of work, appreciate The Twilight Zone, and have a high suspension of disbelief threshold, The Village is likely to satisfy.
07/30/04
Top CriticHigh on foreboding atmospherics and low on goosebumps.
07/30/04
Top CriticThere is no doubt that Shyamalan is a gifted director who knows how to push audience buttons, but heavy-handed horror shows like this one make the man behind the camera seems less an artist than a huckster.
07/30/04
Top CriticIt's tedious instead of provocative and so unconvincing as to be preposterous.
07/30/04
Top CriticShyamalan's best film since The Sixth Sense.
07/30/04
Top CriticShyamalan's most mature and least showy film to date.
07/30/04
Top CriticA Grimm brothers fairy tale taken to the Outer Limits.
07/30/04
Top CriticWhile The Village might not blow the door off its hinges in terms of frightening you, it does something more significant: It leaves the door ajar, beckoning us to enter a different realm.
07/30/04
Top CriticMight have made a good 20-minute short or Twilight Zone episode.
07/30/04
Top CriticAll this craftsmanship and a very fine performance by Howard, however, is in the service of a story that unlike Shyamalan's previous films contains no underlying themes or ideas.
07/30/04
Top CriticThe Village is a colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a premise so transparent it would be laughable were the movie not so deadly solemn.
07/30/04
Top CriticNot only is The Village not credible, its shallowness makes it dislikable.
07/30/04
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