A Movie to Watch Once

Rating: 7/10 (28 June 2010)

"The Sixth Sense" is really a film to only be enjoyed once. It's an effective little ghost story with one of the most famous twist endings in history, but the film relies too much on that gimmick, and without it, it doesn't hold up all that well.
The movie is a cut above others in its genre because it devotes a healthy amount of time to developing its characters, and Toni Collette, who plays the frazzled mother of a troubled little boy, invests the film with a tremendous amount of warmth and emotion it would otherwise lack.
It's far and away M. Night Shyamalan's best movie, as his dependence on gimmicky storytelling and his inflated ego have resulted in progressively worse clunkers.
Grade: B+