"Shyamalan’s classic sci-fi drama Signs is both a thrilling celebration of the genre and a poignant exploration of the purpose behind life’s random tragedies."

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2025

The scares are expertly handled; there’s an undeniable cleverness to the idea that a potential alien invasion could re-instill religious ardor just as it terrorizes an unprepared community.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 25, 2024

Signs is a quiet contemplation on grief and faith that uses aliens as a means to an end. It’s the horror serving the drama and never the other way around.

| Aug 6, 2024

Manages to capture the inherent unease of an alien invasion in frightening ways, while also injecting plenty of heart into the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Signs knows what it's like to witness the end of the world on television and the twisted catharsis that comes with the world not actually ending.

| Feb 24, 2023

Shyamalan takes his time, drawing out the exquisite silences, the small trembling portents of terror.

| Original Score: B | Sep 17, 2022

Shyamalan's elegant and patient way of introducing the themes of grief and faith is the most significant element of this film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 4, 2022

An eerily effective (and often humorous) alien invasion tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2022

A masterclass in creating tension, Shyamalan's “Field of Screams”– given his later travails, predictability and sometimes laughable conceits – now, two decades on, seems like it was the high-water mark of his endeavours.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 23, 2022

Be it supernatural, alien, or our own personal demons, Shamlyan gets it. Signs is subtle and yet terrifying.

| Nov 12, 2021

I'm a sucker for an effective scary movie that involves aliens and if you're gonna tell me that you didn't jump during that scene in the basement with the alien arm, I'm gonna call you a liar.

| Apr 14, 2021

A filmmaker who here has refined his forms to distill the very essence of his way of understanding cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 17, 2020

Signs is a tense experience; even the opening credits lunge at your throat with orchestral shrieks. It may one day reveal itself as a minor classic, a new Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the manufactured scare of its day.

| Mar 16, 2020

An emotional, yet old-fashioned scary movie punctuated with terror and psychological suspense, Signs will have you holding your breath, biting your nails and sitting on the edge of your seat - even long after the film has ended.

| Nov 16, 2019

It's the content that's to blame. Signs works on a confused storyboard. What's Shyamalan trying to say anyways? Nothing, or rather a bit too much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2019

Enthralled by his own genius and desire to make another blockbuster, Shyamalan has taken a terrific B-movie idea and inflated it into what he wants us to believe is a serious commentary on faith.

| May 17, 2018

Signs manages to be creepy, emotional, and thrilling all at once.

| Jan 31, 2018

Shyamalan may not be Hitchcock hut so far he's made the best 1950s B-movie of the 21st century.

| Jan 30, 2018

Signs was the film that sparked the desire that led to the purchase of a camera, many short films, and a love of movies that hasn't left me to this day.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 17, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Dec 30, 2012