Signs (2002) All Critics (228) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (167) | Rotten (59) | DVD (51) Individual sequences generate an eerie tension that's always deflated, creating a jarring stop-and-go rhythm, and the atmospheric trickery never strays beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors.
Shyamalan is technically a superb film-maker, for all that he's picked up most of his tricks from Spielberg and Hitchcock. A refreshing summer movie. Mel Gibson. Edge of Darkness (2010) All Critics (202) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (113) | Rotten (89) | DVD (14) Gibson, of course, snaps and snarls and blows out some brains with a joylessness that is thoroughly enjoyable.
It's like he never left. Scriptwriters William Monahan and Andrew Bovell have sadly sacrificed some of the original's cultural specificity and its slow-burn quality. Mel Gibson.