Signs Critic Reviews

Its quirks are exactly what make Signs interesting, entertaining, and good.Read the full review

The work of a born filmmaker, able to summon apprehension out of thin air.Read the full review

It's a high-octane doomsday vision built almost entirely around our sense of anticipation, and that's both its strength and its weakness.Read the full review

Shyamalan's great gift is the creation of atmosphere, the conjuring of spooky, unseen menace. When he gets around to doing this in Signs, all is well, but it's a tossup as to whether the film offers enough of a payoff considering how long it takes to get where it's going.Read the full review

By limiting the number of special effects shots and treating the film more like a horror movie than a science fiction spectacle, Shyamalan creates a claustrophobic atmosphere and keeps the tension level high. There were times during this film when I was strongly reminded of "Panic Room."Read the full review

Follow Shyamalan's Signs. It will take a piece out of you.Read the full review

Promised to be the season's thoughtful action picture, turns out to have few thoughts and no thrills.Read the full review

As a scare picture, Signs is good enough. As a religious parable, it's scarier -- and I don't mean that as a compliment.Read the full review

Mr. Shyamalan never gives us anything to believe in, other than his own power to solve problems of his own posing, and his command of a narrative logic is as circular -- and as empty -- as those bare patches out in the cornfield.Read the full review