The film is greater than its climax.

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2005)

The Sixth Sense is one of the celebrated movies of all time more because of its mind-blowing climax. To me however, the movie stands for much more than just its ending. In particular, the two relationships in the movie, that between Cole and his mother, Lynn, and between Malcolm and Anna were handled with great delicacy.
Toni Collette has delivered a flawless performance as Cole's exasperated mom who tries in vain to understand her son's psychological nightmares. The scenes between mother and son are few in number but have been constructed with great care and meticulousness and go a long way in describing their relationship.
In the case of Malcolm and Anna, the former's confessions to Cole about his marital problems and Anna's vacant stares into space also describe their strained marriage effectively.
The scenes where Cole confesses his biggest secret to his mother and Malcolm talks to Anna in her sleep are, in my opinion, Shyamalan at his very best. With minimal but very effective dialogues, he shows why he is the master of underplay and subtlety.
The Sixth Sense truly is M. Shyamalan Night's masterpiece.