"Old," Reviewed: M. Night Shyamalan's New Old-School Sci-Fi Movie
Save this story for later. Just as it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken, it takes a smart filmmaker to make a stupid movie, which I mean in the best possible way. Science-fiction films, once a cinematic counterpart to pulp fiction, are today often big-budget, overproduced spectacles that substitute grandiosity for imagination. M. Night Shyamalanâs new film, âOldâ (which opens in theatres on Friday), is different. His frequent artistic pitfall is complicationâthe burdening of stories with extravagant yet undeveloped byways in order to endow them with ostensible ...