A film that left an indelible footprint on the popular culture, a film that remains one of my favorite titles of the 1990s in any genre...

| Aug 9, 2024

At root, his films are patient vindications of crazy faiths, of ghosts and comic book heroes. Loneliness is his theme, and when blessed with courageous performers, as in The Sixth Sense, he can take us just about anywhere.

| Mar 16, 2020

You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger. It becomes a clammy, chilly movie building toward a revelation that you cannot predict. As I say: I cannot tell you. You'd hate me if I did. I can only say, don't look now, but look sometime.

| Oct 7, 2014

Dr Crowe gradually comes to believe that little Cole can indeed commune with the unquiet souls, who are reaching out to him for help. And, yes, the scenes where Cole does so can be very creepy indeed.

| Aug 27, 2013

So transparent is Osment as an actor, and so rare, that the pain on his face stabs you in the heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 27, 2013

Osment's pinched, old-young face suggests an ancient's insight without an ancient's defenses -- a sensitivity so exquisitely morbid that you worry more for his emotional than physical well-being.

| Aug 27, 2013

Willis turns in a measured and understated performance.

| Aug 27, 2013

A delicate, emotionally attentive, but very scary ghost story.

| Oct 10, 2012

I was not only surprised by the film's final twist, I wasn't even looking for one. I just thought I was watching a bad movie. The end doesn't quite redeem it, but it makes you think about what you've seen. That's a saving grace of some sort.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2012

Shyamalan's script is a clever construct, but also contains a great deal of sensitivity to the plight of the "different" child.

| Oct 10, 2012

Like Kieslowski and others, Shyamalan knows that what makes for lousy metaphysics can make for powerful metaphor, and in the end he creates a deeply, surprisingly affecting film out of a little bit of smoke and brimstone.

| Oct 10, 2012

Constantly on the brink of explanation, The Sixth Sense in fact derives most of its fascination from explaining next to nothing.

| Jun 18, 2012

Great, but sometimes scarier than R-rated horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

M. Night Shyamalan neutralizes Willis's star presence with impressive plotting that's a fine excuse for the powerful atmosphere.

| Jun 26, 2007

An effectively understated and moodily engrossing ghost film with a surprisingly satisfying jolt at the end.

| Apr 27, 2007

A poignant study of the searing pain caused by loss, this all-too-human horror film provokes tears as well as fears.

| Feb 9, 2006

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.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 29, 2004

Billed as a 'chilling, psychological thriller,' this movie is actually none of those things.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

The Sixth Sense works best when it works its mournful magic alone, without fanfare, using only the flickering fear in Cole's gaze as it meets the compassion in Crowe's.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 21, 2001

Of the big studio films released this summer, it's hands-down the best!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000