I do think this is one of Shyamalan’s most accomplished works, and one that should be more recognized for the talent it shows behind and in front of the camera.

| Dec 14, 2023

What it lacks in genuine terror it more than makes up for in a creepy atmosphere and a compelling love story.

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

Shyamalan employs mystery and obscurity along the way but only to serve the plot, not derail it. It’s a necessary element to emphasize trauma and grief, which are such essential focal points throughout.

| Jul 22, 2023

Even with the poorly executed twists, that perspective would make The Village a flawed but bracing entry, a film worth watching. Unfortunately, there’s still the matter of Noah (Adrien Brody).

| Feb 24, 2023

Treat this with the crudeness of a '70s agrarian horror picture, and you've got something. Treat it as a solemn, prestigious middlebrow art film with popcorn movie trappings, and you have something airless and leaden,

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 26, 2022

We feel the need ever more today, as societies polarise and global political and environmental crises loom, for community and hope, and The Village foresaw that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2021

An impoverishment of forms begins to be glimpsed in 'The Village' that, in light of his (Shyamalan) later films, has been irreversible for more than a decade. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 16, 2020

While it has some distinct moments that are capable of scaring the pants off you, when compared to Shyamalan's more meticulous works, for the avid Shyamalan fan, disappointment is the guaranteed outcome.

| Nov 3, 2019

It all comes to a head... in perhaps the greatest sequence Shyamalan has ever filmed.

| Jan 24, 2019

Shyamalan's films never send that chill up the bone on a second viewing. Worse, with Signs and The Village even the first viewing is becoming a bit of a yawn.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2019

The entire solemn, portentous edifice that is The Village collapses of its own fake weight.

| Mar 13, 2018

It succeeds more often than it fails, and it proves once and for all that M. Night Shyamalan is nobody's one-trick pony.

| Feb 7, 2018

This director is a young dog who needs some new tricks.

| Feb 3, 2018

The Village is a truly special film, one that is largely misunderstood by the masses.

| Jan 24, 2018

Frankly, if you believe this twaddle, you'll believe anything, and if you believe anything, you don't need to go to the films -- you can just sit at home and fantasise for free.

| Jan 9, 2018

The Village reminded me not so much of Hitchock but Scooby Doo. When at the end of that cartoon it was revealed that glowing skull creature was actually Old Mr. Higgins the caretaker, it pissed me off even as a little kid.

| Aug 24, 2017

'The Village' is among Shyamalan's salvageable films, in which he uses ignorance and superstition to keep a group of people in the woods away from evil creatures. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 31, 2016

different than anything else that's playing at the moment

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2016

Thought-provoking thriller too intense for some.

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

Gripping, creepy, and very well acted with a great breakout performance from Bryce Dallas Howard...

| Apr 29, 2009