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The Village (2004)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 203
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 116
The Village is appropriately creepy, but Shyamalan's signature twist ending disappoints.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 21
The Village is appropriately creepy, but Shyamalan's signature twist ending disappoints.
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M. Night Shyamalan, the creative mind behind The Sixth Sense and Signs, wrote and directed this characteristically atmospheric thriller. The rustic village of Covington is a small town in rural Pennsylvania that is home to 60 souls. The citizens of... More
PG-13, 1 hr. 49 min.
Jul 30, 2004 Wide
Jan 11, 2005
$114.2M
Buena Vista
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Bryce Dallas Howard
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Adrien Brody
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William Hurt
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Sigourney Weaver
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Brendan Gleeson
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Cherry Jones
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Jayne Atkinson
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Judy Greer
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Fran Kranz
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Michael Pitt
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Celia Weston
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John Christopher Jones
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Frank Collison
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Jesse Eisenberg
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Dangerously dour.
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For those who just want a good scare, rest assured the best (and worst) of it comes across as Wait Until Dark meets The Blair Witch Project.
Shyamalan, far from being a master of suspense, hasn't yet figured out that the shadowy things you glimpse out of the corner of your eye are always scarier than those you're allowed to gaze upon directly.
Another mediocre lunacy from the overrated M. Night Shyamalan.
So meaningless and distanced in its details that it hardly stands a chance of wooing even the most willing fellow traveler.
The Village doesn't pack quite the punch of The Sixth Sense, but it's equal to Shyamalan's last two films.
Thought-provoking thriller too intense for some.
Gripping, creepy, and very well acted with a great breakout performance from Bryce Dallas Howard...
M. Night Shyamalan keeps the story vague enough to work up to his plot twist, and while I won't reveal it here, I will say that I don't think the payoff is worth it.
Shyamalan remains ever the master of mood and of unseen, inchoate menace; he can give depth and gravity to scenes that in other hands would be either boring or ridiculous.
The Village is not completely awful, but it comes closer than one would like to admit.
The would-be surprise only makes you rethink the reason you went to see the movie in the first place.
Village idiot.
If you're willing to follow Shyamalan wherever he goes in his inquiry into how the US got so terrorism-fixated, he leads you into provocative, if uneven, territory.
In a time when Hollywood is more interested in remakes and sequels than in original movies, Shyamalan continues to tell new stories. And he's really good at it.
I'm not sure exactly why I'm protecting the Shocking Twist, because it certainly doesn't deserve to be protected.
It's hard to care about situations that have been designed only to obscure the ultimate twist.
Picturesque, slightly haunting but silly in a frustrating way.
A timely mention of the ways that violence begets violence, and in how effective terror can be in keeping people under control.
Shyamalan can't brings himself to abandon the familiar. Until he does, however, he's just going to keep coming back with diminishing returns.
Audience Reviews for The Village
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- Ivy Walker: Sometimes we don't do things we want to do so that others won't know we want to do them.
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- Lucius Hunt: There are different types of love.
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- Christop Crane: She's not going to squeeze my shirt like that, is she?
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Foreign Titles
- Le Village (FR)
