The Sixth Sense Critic Reviews

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

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

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

An inferior product. It is not well written, well acted, or well directed.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

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

Because it unfolds like a garish hybrid of Simon Birch and What Dreams May Come, with some horror-movie touches thrown in to keep us from nodding off, "The Sixth Sense" appears to have been concocted at exactly the moment Hollywood was betting on supernatural schmaltz.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

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