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'Signs' Is the M. Night Shyamalan Experience at Its Best August 07, 2024

s it lame to still get unabashedly excited for a new M. Night Shyamalan flick? Sure can seem like it. At some point over the past 20 years, it became outré ever to have fallen head over heels for the films, particularly the early ones, by the directo...

M. Night Shyamalan’s Very Sinister Dad Joke August 07, 2024

Having scored floor seats for himself and his teenage daughter at a sold-out stadium date by the world’s reigning pop star, a distracted dad spends the majority of the show looking desperately for a way out: “Let me know what I miss,” he tells her on...

The Macabre Ironies of “Trap” August 06, 2024

Some movies dispense symbols subtly, like crumbs on a backwoods trail, but in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, “Trap,” there’s one symbolic idea, and it’s unleashed with the subtlety of a thunderclap, reverberating throughout the film with relen...