The Sixth Sense Critic Reviews

The 11-year-old Osment evokes the boy's terror and awful predicament so memorably, you'll never forget him.Read the full review

The filmmaker keeps upping the ante with surprises until the plot-twist beaut that concludes the picture - a shocker that, upon reflection, is probably the one ending that wouldn't have fallen a little flat.Read the full review

It's a psychological thriller that actually thrills.Read the full review

Teeters on the brink of New Age ludicrousness, but it never goes over: Like Kieslowski and others, Shyamalan knows that what makes for lousy metaphysics can make for powerful metaphor, and in the end he creates a deeply, surprisingly affecting film out of a little bit of smoke and brimstone.Read the full review

So disarmingly eerie it's virtually guaranteed to rattle the most jaded of cages.Read the full review

Has a kind of calm, sneaky self-confidence that allows it to take us down a strange path, intriguingly.Read the full review

If this isn't the single best performance ever by a preadolescent male (Osment) in a motion picture, then it's tied for whatever is first.Read the full review

It's like an enema to the soul as it probes the ways of death ? some especially grotesque in a family setting. You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger.Read the full review

Ultimately, it has less in common with "Blair Witch" than with such quivering lumps of sentiment as "Ghost" and Field of Dreams."Read the full review