'Old'

'Old' by Piers Marchant | Today at 1:51 a.m. “Teenagers” Maddox (Thomasin McKenzie) and Trent (Alex Wolff) grow up very quickly in in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller “Old.” I don't mean for this to sound as mincing and mean as it will probably read, but, maybe it's time M. Night Shyamalan tried his hand at a silent film. Or at least one -- like, say, "All Is Lost"-- where the dialogue is nearly non-existent. The Philly-born director is a decent enough storyteller, as far as that goes, and peppers his films with glimpses of visual panache, but where he inevitably runs into trouble, as far as I'm concerned, is literally anytime a character speaks words to another.