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Signs Reviews
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
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
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
Excellent, but has some extreme tension and peril.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010
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.
| Jun 6, 2007
Shyamalan is technically a superb film-maker, for all that he's picked up most of his tricks from Spielberg and Hitchcock.
| Jun 24, 2006
This talented and, at 32, very young director must now find new ideas -- maybe working with someone else's scripts. Because his film-making identity is in danger of fading.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2002
A terrific suspense movie, overlaid with a faintly embarrassing tale of faith lost and perhaps regained.
| Oct 2, 2002
Gibson is on top form, and there are some genuinely terrifying moments that will have you cowering behind your popcorn.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2002
This is the creepiest Hollywood thriller in a very long while and almost definitely this year's horror flick par excellence.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 20, 2002
A refreshing summer movie.
| Aug 12, 2002
Shyamalan wants to be the metaphysical poet of movies, but he's dangerously close to becoming its O. Henry.
Full Review | Aug 11, 2002
The movie is almost completely lacking in suspense, surprise and consistent emotional conviction.
| Aug 8, 2002
Sitting through the last reel (spoiler alert!) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House.
| Aug 6, 2002
Shyamalan manufactures real, honest-to-goodness, nail-gnawing suspense like cows make methane.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2002
Shyamalan fuses the fictional evidence of his extraterrestrials with the presumed righteousness of God in a way that will make no sense to anyone who has ever questioned either.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 3, 2002
Ultimately comes up short.
Full Review | Aug 2, 2002
One of the most effective movies so far at capturing a jittery nation's case of the yips.
Full Review | Aug 2, 2002
It's fair to speculate whether Shyamalan's persistence in replicating the otherworldly formula of The Sixth Sense might not be a futile and self-defeating exercise.
Full Review | Aug 2, 2002