Films

M. Night Shyamalan’s new Night Diaries series is off to a strong start with a deeply personal first episode built around his 2001 diary from making Signs.

M. Night Shyamalan gave several terrific new quotes about Remain at Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation, including the headline-grabbing claim that it is the highest-testing movie of his career.

Wide Awake rarely gets much attention, but it already shows the grief, faith, and emotional searching Shyamalan would keep returning to.

Signs works as suspense, but the reason it stays with so many of us is the grief sitting underneath everything.

Remain does not just look like M. Night Shyamalan’s next project. It looks like a clue about the kind of emotional and supernatural territory he wants to explore right now.

Knock at the Cabin takes world-ending stakes and traps them inside one family, one cabin, and one impossible choice. That pressure is exactly why it works.

The Village is often remembered for its fear system and its twist, but some of its deepest strength comes from the women carrying courage in quieter ways.

Trap works differently because its pop music is not wallpaper. The songs are part of the plot, part of the performance, and part of the movie’s strange split personality.