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Signs

2002

M. Night Shyamalan

Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin ...

6.0

57,761

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Mystery. Horror Former priest and widow Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) lives with his children, Morgan (Rory Culkin) and Bo (Abigail Breslin) on a quiet farm in rural Pennsylvania. Graham's younger brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), also lives with them. Graham discovers a curious crop circles in his field, and feels the farm is being watched. More crop circles appear around the world. Soon after that a string of bizarre incidents begin to occur on the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[Shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit, purpose and emotionally bruised characters"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[The] suspense sequences build slowly and elegantly (...) A narrative logic is as circular -- and as empty -- as those bare patches out in the cornfield."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A movie that stays free of labored explanations and a forced climax, and is about fear in the wind, in the trees, in a dog's bark, in a little girl's reluctance to drink the water (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It's a high-octane doomsday vision built almost entirely around our sense of anticipation, and that's both its strength and its weakness"
		Jason Caro Radio Times	"'Meaningful' moments that feel awkward and manipulative. Where Shyamalan does score highly is with the edgy, apprehensive atmosphere that he builds up (...) Entertaining, if a little disappointing.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Shyamalan's great gift is the creation of atmosphere, the conjuring of spooky, unseen menace"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Shyamalan has come up with an amiable, often amusing, but basically pretty weak sub-Spielbergian drama with a heavy-handed conservative message about faith (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Colin Kennedy Empire	"'Signs' has passages of sustained brilliance that are beyond most merely good filmmakers, and yet Shyamalan has saddled himself with a story he cannot complete (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	"'Signs' is the evil cousin to Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
		Time Out	"The teasing first hour or so tingles with eerie suggestion and ominous disquiet (...) The denouement's an embarrassment and you hate yourself for being sucked in"

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