The Village
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: July 30, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
19
Negative:
10
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30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
For the most part, the film's a bewildering disappointment. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
It's tedious instead of provocative and so unconvincing as to be preposterous. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderHank Sartin
Every eerily tranquil shot, weirdly elliptical scene, and peculiar line reading contributes to a mood of detachment rather than creeping dread. Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The real mystery at the heart of M. Night Shyamalan's latest: How does he persuade actors like Sigourney Weaver and Adrien Brody to act in his supremely lame movies? Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
The photography is excellent! the music is striking! the movie is a stinker! Read full review
30
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
The screwiest yarn yet from Shyamalan's metaphysical-Limburger career project, a non-horror horror film. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's exasperating watching so much top-drawer talent wasted in a film that wraps itself up with one of the most preposterous (not to mention obvious) endings the genre has ever seen. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a premise so transparent it would be laughable were the movie not so deadly solemn. It's a flimsy excuse for a plot, with characters who move below the one-dimensional and enter Flatland. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The Village seems poised to become as cheesy in its effects as a low-budget horror film. Shyamalan's gracefulness keeps his movie just out of that abyss. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
It's bad enough to make parable a four-letter word.
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