The director has had plenty of hits in his careers, but many misses too.

What a drag it is getting Old in M. Night Shyamalan’s spooky new thriller

In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, the aging process takes places at a scary pace — very scary.

There are too many flat performances, awful lines and moments bordering on tastelessness.

The aging process becomes a happily manageable time commitment in “Old,” the 14th feature from director M. Night Shyamalan and another one of his not-bad...

★★★★☆ The films of M. Night Shyamalan need little by way of an introduction. In the two decades since The Sixth Sense rocketed to the...

Blue Lagoon meets Cocoon in beach-based body horror that doesn't know what to do with its chilling premise.

M. Night Shyamalan is up to his old tricks in “Old,” but after his heralded breakthrough with “Split,” he’s back on a downward trajectory.

Old feels like a Twilight Zone premise tossed through M. Night Shyamalan's particular brand of quirks. Read our review.

Despite some awkward touches, 'Old' is a weird, interesting thriller starring Alex Wolff and Gael Garcia Bernal.

M Night Shyamalan's summer horror strands Vicky Krieps and Gael García Bernal on a beach where people rapidly age. Read the Empire review.

Review of the Old movie by director M. Night Shyamalan

Starring Gael García Bernal and Vicky Krieps, the filmmaker's latest contrasts a lush tropical destination with a baffling disease of the flesh.

Life's a beach in M. Night Shyamalan's well-cast new movie, which never finds a way to follow through on its skin-crawling premise.

Another chapter in the Sixth Sense director’s peculiarly underwhelming career

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Andy Klein review this weekend’s new movie releases.

Shyamalan reclaims the title as our biggest doozy of a filmmaker.

M. Night Shyamalan gets lost with the wildly unhinged thriller 'Old,' but the result is strangely fascinating.

Matt Damon is terrific in thriller that goes beyond being a thriller; also worth seeing is ‘Boy Behind the Door’

With spare methods and sharp images, the director turns a simple premise into potent fantasy.

“Old,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Ken Leung and Abbey Lee, is pleasantly straightforward and has a confidence that’s been missing from “Sixth Sense...

None of ‘Old’ makes any sense, and it’s not interesting or suspenseful enough to invest much time trying to care what happens next, writes critic Rex R...

Old is very effective when Shyamalan is being playful and quick with his high concept.

“Old” begins as mysterious, creepy and filled with the foreboding — that sense that some “gotcha” is coming — that is M. Night Shyamalan’s bran...

'Old,' Shyamalan’s new movie, is deeply silly, yet increasingly thoughtful, occasionally even dark for its willingness to be funny.

M. Night Shyamalan examines the terrors of ageing

In the moments when 'Old' works, it’s because writer-director M. Night Shyamalan embraces the inherent weirdness of his material.

M. Night Shyamalan's Old is a mess – but it's an interesting, entertaining mess, and perhaps that's enough right now.

The biggest challenge in reviewing M. Night Shyamalan’s Old lies in describing its central idea without making the film sound considerably cleverer and mor...

In Old, an ordinary couple land at a tropical resort where they are trapped as time itself plays terrifying tricks on them.

In "Old," the director confronts the everyday, existential terror of life passing by too quickly.

Old, the latest thriller from horror auteur M. Night Shyamalan, follows a family vacationing at a luxurious tropical resort. The parents (Gael García Bernal...

Old is a feverishly earnest look at mortality and responsibility with a great pull-back-the-curtain ending

‘Old’ is extremely representative of the longtime director, in good ways and bad

Poorly-written characters struggle with ill-defined terrors in a muddled mess of a thriller

A reverse fountain of youth could have been a great jumping-off point to riff on human fears of aging, but Shyamalan doesn't go there

The director gets metaphysical on the beach in a B-movie.

Shyamalan turns a day at the beach into a nightmare of aging, but he doesn't explore his premise so much as throw ideas against the wall.

It’s at its best when it’s at its weirdest.

The Sixth Sense director still has a way with sinister shots, but is oddly invested in having the audience care about his cardboard characters.

There is no denying the allegorical overtones of this superior thriller from M. Night Shyamalan. Adapted from the graphic novel Sandcastle, created by