The Sixth Sense

Name: The Sixth Sense
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Released: 1999

3.67

Synopsis

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

80
L.A. Weekly
Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan lets the tension rise slowly, leads you everywhere you don't expect, doesn't rip you off and totally freaks you out -- all without stale effects or gore.
80
Film.com
Chalk this film up as an unusually intelligent thriller about that which scares us the most: accepting our accidents of fate.
80
Film.com
It's far more loquacious and cerebral than your average run-of-the-mill thriller, but boy, when the relatively infrequent scares do come, they will pull you out of your seat and raise the hair on your arms.
75
San Francisco Examiner
Ultimately affecting mix 'n' match weeper.
75
Portland Oregonian
Sometimes verges on silliness.
70
Slate
Ultimately, it has less in common with "Blair Witch" than with such quivering lumps of sentiment as "Ghost" and Field of Dreams."
60
Variety
Borderline dull to sit through, The Sixth Sense is actually rather interesting to think about afterward because of the revelation of its ending.
50
Village Voice
Complain all you want about Willis's posturing and the rabbit-in-the-hat ending (predicated as it is on a vast plothole), the film is still a rarity, a studio horror movie focused on a child's traumatic stress.