Lady in the Water Critic Reviews

There is a good chunk of Lady in the Water that is simply too well made and affectingly acted to dismiss as a mere exercise in arrogance.Read the full review

Shyamalan's most alienating and self-absorbed project to date.Read the full review

There is something bizarrely compelling about the movie. It's slower than watching a train wreck but invokes that same level of disbelief.Read the full review

This is sloppy filmmaking, and it's likely to wipe away whatever luster still remains to Shyamalan's reputation.Read the full review

You leave Lady thinking there are still voices in Shyamalan's head well worth a listen.Read the full review

Has the strengths and weaknesses of a one-man show.Read the full review

I will hold against him (Shyamalan) that Lady in the Water isn't scary, that its own inner logic breaks down at countless points along the way, and that its ending is disappointingly literal and just plain stupid. Lady in the Water is, however, funny at times, even intentionally so.Read the full review

Shyamalan does project genuine menace and suspense into this mundane location, especially in nighttime scenes. But the magic that would transport you from reality into fantasy is missing.Read the full review

One of the more watchable films of the summer. A folly, true, but watchable.Read the full review