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Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Split) adapts Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters graphic novel, Sandcastle, for the big screen. The thriller focuses on a family on a tropical holiday who discovers the secluded beach they ve visited is causing them to age rapidly their entire lives slipping away hour by hour. (108 min.) click to enlarge Photo Courtesy Of Universal Pictures
GOING . GONE Various vacationers at a tropical resort discover their lives have sped up on a secluded beach, aging years every hour, in auteur M. Night Shyamalan s
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Glen I m not quite sure why I keep coming back for more M. Night Shyamalan. He s disappointed me so many times. I never saw his first two films, but when
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“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.
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