Signs: Critic Reviews

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.

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.

Excellent, but has some extreme tension and peril.

Gibson is unbelievable, packing a punch in many of the scenes in which there are no dialogue. He is a deep and very likeable character as he slowly descents in to a situation way over his head and must rely on his faith to help him.

An anti-Independence Day, a cousin of Close Encounters, but most of all, a well-modulated, dread-laden, faith-based mystery. [Blu-Ray]

Crap circles.

Mr. Shayamalan is a gifted writer and filmmaker. He definitely has more great films in his future. However, he may need to take a step away from the paranormal thriller.

Shyamalan is technically a superb film-maker, for all that he's picked up most of his tricks from Spielberg and Hitchcock.

M. Night Shyamalan's Signs is Close Encounters of the Corny Kind.

I come away from Signs exhilarated by Shyamalan's skill at keeping his audience guessing.

The one good thing about it is that it's over in one hour and 47 minutes. The bad thing is to think what a terrible waste it was of an hour and 47 minutes.

A gripping and well-made thriller that preserves Shyamalan's winning streak and shows us, as all the best films do, a world that we're familiar with and believe in, and yet we've never seen, and by which we're endlessly fascinated.

great

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Shyamalan fancies himself a philosopher whose stories have deep and important meanings that need to be conveyed to audiences as slowly and heavy-handedly as possible.

Gibson gives one of the best performances of his career...

One may never get the answer that they seek, but they will be scared out of the wits when searching for one.

Shyamalan has done it again. He's taken a well-used genre, the alien invasion, and given it a spin that focuses on the human psyche rather than the surrounding events.

How apt for a film called Signs that Shyamalan should have plusses and minuses the whole way through.

Being known for "Big Twist Endings" may label you a one-trick pony, but one trick is better than no tricks.

[Shyamalan's] treatment doesn't always make perfect sense, but what his film lacks in logic is more than made up for in atmosphere.

Signs may be lightweight and fragile in comparison to Sense and even to Unbreakable for that matter, but nobody can deny the eye-popping quality to this exquisite soul-searching drama.

M. Night Shyamalan proves himself narratively perceptive with his latest film.

A great movie. People went to Signs expecting to see intestines, and what they got was heart, and a lot to think about.

An intriguing idea that ends up overly predictable.