The Visit is a return to form for Shyamalan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2023

While Shyamalan doesn’t reinvent the wheel with “The Visit”, he does show the creative flourishes that made him a respected name and overnight success in the horror-thriller genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

It’s all a very transparent metaphor for family reconciliation and what happens when your old wounds don’t heal.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2022

This would be a perfect movie to kind of study because it's written really, really well and the scripting and dialogue and just the overall story structure is perfect.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jun 1, 2021

M. Night Shyamalan needed people to be on his side. Thankfully, with The Visit, a found footage horror movie with more than its share of humor, he finally got me back on his side.

| Jan 15, 2021

Shyamalan's made a lot of terrible films in a career singularly set with The Sixth Sense, but makes a decent rebound here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2020

The Visit is one freaky found footage frightfest.

| Jul 18, 2020

The fear of 'The visit' is something very real, it is fear of abandonment, of not being loved. A fear far superior, by its authenticity, to any created fiction. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 14, 2020

We all know that comedy and horror are close to each other, so much so that screams can quickly transform into laughter. Shyamalan remembers this...

| Feb 13, 2020

Shyamalan recaptures some of his earlier essence with lots of mystery, subtle creeps and moments where you'll question what exactly it is you're seeing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2019

The Visit's faux-documentary stylings bring fresh horrors to tired formulas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

A thoroughly generic predictable horror movie.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2019

The Visit is solidly entertaining without overdoing anything. At least it's not a negative mark on Shyamalan's record, which is in and of itself a reason to be happy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2019

Unpretentious, scary, and wickedly entertaining, The Visit will, with hope, signal a new, not-shitty period in a fallen filmmaker's career.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 7, 2019

The Visit proves to be a pleasant surprise, with a surprisingly effective mix of laughs and chills that doesn't try to do too much.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 18, 2019

Los detractores de Shyamalan podrán encontrar de qué quejarse, pero indudablemente Los huéspedes marca parcialmente su regreso como un narrador con buenas historias que contar.

| Original Score: 7.5/ 10 | Dec 29, 2018

While "The Visit" bucks the trend of space-oriented films that start from a sense of wonder rather than fact, it does inspire the former, treating its audience as aliens to restore that all-too-human curiosity about what lies beyond our own planet.

| Nov 15, 2018

The Visit isn't on par with Shyamalan's early work nor does it excuse his recent atrocities, but going from dreadful to pretty good is still an enormous leap to accomplish.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

If you've felt burned by Shyamalan over the past ten years, put your skepticism aside and take a chance on The Visit. It's well worth your time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2018

The Visit is not a perfect film, but it is fun and as the viewer you may laugh out loud or gasp.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2018