After a string of critical and audience failures like “After Earth” and “The Happening,” M. Night Shyamalan seemed destined to remain merely a punch line for his signature twist endings and declining quality. But with 2015’s “The Visit” and his latest film “Split,” the director is finally returning to his status as a capable thriller […]

Dir/scr: M. Night Shyamalan. US. 2016. 120mins

We don't mislabel it "schizophrenia" any more. And few call them "multiple personalities" these days. It's "Dissociative identity disorder" now. But it's still every actor's wet dream. And given the chance to play a kidnapper with an array of guises living in his darkly disturbed skull, James McAvoy does what any gifted actor would under the…

M. Night Shyamalan movies are almost always better when he’s having fun. Like The Visit, Split makes mischief out of the balance between horror and comedy, continually throwing up situations that are simultaneously absurd and terrifying. The Visit exploited fears of the elderly, while Split goes to the popular well of insanity – specifically, dissociative

It isn’t up to par with his previous chiller, “The Visit,” but M. Night Shyamalan’s latest features a dazzling performance by James McAvoy as a villain...

It’s exciting to see Shyamalan on such confident footing once more, all these years later.

My loathing of Split goes beyond its derivative ideas and secondhand parts.

M. Night Shyamalan thriller is a tour de force performance in search of a good story.

A welcome return to form from "The Sixth Sense" director M. Night Shyamalan, whose new mind-bender is a worthy extension of his early work.

M Night Shyamalan’s bonkers return-to-form thriller starring James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy is enjoyably over the top

Surprise! The Sixth Sense director’s shock-twist kidnap thriller premiered in a secret screening at Austin’s Fantastic Fest – a masterful blend of Hitchcock, horror and therapy session

Director M. Night Shyamalan's Split is an ambitious and entertaining genre experiment with stellar performances from its leads.

James McAvoy captivates as a kidnapper with 23 personalities, but the real surprise is that Shyamalan mostly suppresses his instinct to overreach

Check out Matt Donato's review of Split, the latest M. Night Shyamalan joint set to spook with with another signature twist.

Actor plays a variety of personalities in M. Night Shyamalan's latest.

In his latest thriller, “Split,” the “Sixth Sense” director tackles dissociative identity disorder.

The writer-director M. Night Shyamalan shook up the movie world in the late 1990s and early 2000s with beautifully constructed, breathtakingly

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Unimaginative horror movies are a dime a dozen, but overlong, boring, unimaginative horror movies? Those are rare. However, in Split, that’s what writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has provided the early 2017 movie-going populace. Since his ...

Through the ups and downs of his career, the name M. Night Shyamalan has always been synonymous with one thing: twist. While watching his films, it’s easy to spend more time wondering if he will, won’t, and how he’ll twist, and it can take away the power of what’s actually on screen. Which is a […]

PG-13 • 1 hour 57 min • 2017

James McAvoy possesses multiple personalities in an ambitious supernatural thriller that could nonetheless do with a few scares

Read Empire's review of M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller, Split.

The director of The Sixth Sense goes grindhouse

Justin Chang reviews Split

James McAvoy’s impressive range is on full display in "Split," in which he stars as Kevin, a man with dissociative identity disorder.

Asghar Farhadi’s film, with Taraneh Alidoosti and  Shahab Hosseini, and M. Night Shyamalan’s movie, starring James McAvoy.

Shyamalan returns with a complex and surprisingly poignant thriller with an incredible performance from James McAvoy.

There's a twist to M. Night Shyamalan's Split that caught me flat-footed: It's actually a good movie, something his past decade made as hard to predict as Bruce Willis being dead in The...