The handful of visually unsettling sequences fail to make up for the complete absurdity of the premise and performances.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2023

The result is a promising idea realized with a laughable amount of hokum.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 6, 2023

But suppose you squint your eyes and pretend it’s a satirical comedy. In that case, it turns from an all-time debacle to one of the most unintentionally funny (and prescient) horror comedies of the 21st century.

| Feb 24, 2023

How did this particular work turn out so badly?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 5, 2022

Filtering Hitchcock through Spielberg, Shyamalan offers two righteous gimmicks ... that compensate for the script's grating sentimentality and a mutinous star performance.

| Aug 18, 2021

The suspense is still present in moderate doses, but Shyamalan's notions of terror just don't complement his attention to buildup.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Shyamalan is straining to achieve the apocalyptic menace that Hitchcock pulled off in The Birds, ... his would-be successor strives but fails to make us afraid of the grass.

| Nov 14, 2020

Really really bad. The screenplay and acting were trash.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2020

This is terrible...god-awful, nothing could have helped this movie...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2020

Even the most fervent M. Night fan will be forced to consider the film one of his weakest efforts.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

Shyamalan had no idea how to stitch the frayed fabric of a story that escapes from him from the very first minute. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 16, 2020

It's distant, aloof and painfully self-aggrandizing, clearly overconfident in its ability to scare the audience.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

You know pretty early on what's likely causing "the happening," and yes, there's a message here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 13, 2018

Ultimately it doesn't work -- scenes intended to be played straight become unintentionally funny due to Wahlberg's star turn being so gormless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

One of the most interesting movies of the year, despite being one of the worst. It offers a study in what happens to the mind of a talented moviemaker when he is caught between commercial hysteria and his own engulfing ego.

| Aug 21, 2018

You just feel you've been conned by a cheap trick, and an old one at that.

| Dec 16, 2017

For reasons still unknown, Shyamalan wrote the dialogue this stiffly, and instructed his performers to act like they'd never said words or interacted with each other before.

| Jan 30, 2017

The Happening is his first hilariously awful film.

| Original Score: C | Apr 17, 2015

Wahlberg is atrocious, as wooden as the trees terrorising him.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 14, 2012

At first, a great deal happens, then nothing much happens for quite some time, then something so underwhelming happens that one is left wondering, 'Did that really just happen?'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011