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He may be divisive these days, but there’s no denying M. Night Shyamalan is once again a household name. Nathan Weinbender takes a look at the director’s latest, “Knock at the Cabin,” a simple story told with riveting style.

In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thought experiment, Dave Bautista brings the end of the world to a peaceful country cottage.

M. Night Shyamalan's "Knock at the Cabin" is part passive-aggressive home invasion thriller, part world’s-end nightmare and part unusually harsh Airbnb commercial.

It seems that M. Night Shyamalan has the end of days on his mind. A couple of years ago, he pondered the quandary of aging in “Old,” based on the graphic novel “Sandcastle,” by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. In his latest film, he turns toward the apocalypse, or

Ben Aldridge, Jonathan Groff, Kristen Cui and Dave Bautista star in a taut vacation-home-invasion thriller adapted from a Paul Tremblay novel.

A review of M. Night Shyamalan's newest thriller, "Knock at the Cabin," starring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, and Rupert Grint, based on Paul G. Tremblay's novel "The Cabin at the End of the World."

M. Night Shyamalan's "Knock at the Cabin" is part passive-aggressive home invasion thriller, part world’s-end nightmare and part unusually harsh Airbnb commercial.

It’s a film with violence but no edge, just a disturbing idea which plays out to a grim and unsatisfying conclusion