Flaws it might have, but it's a knockout film

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2001)

If you want to get nitpicky, you can find logical flaws in "Alien." But even the most fervent picker of nits would still get frightened and shocked in Alien's cafeteria scene. Hitchcock's "The Birds" has a ridiculous premise, if you stop to think about it -- but when you saw the blackbirds gathering on the jungle gym, I'm sure you felt fear and foreboding. Well, I won't give you the laundry list, but "The Sixth Sense" has its story faults as well.
But that doesn't change the fact that this is a brilliant film. Night invents a new language of film, using the color red. The trick ending caught me by surprise, I didn't see it coming. But even if that part of the movie had never been written in, the movie still bats 1.000. The scary parts are even scarier because they're underplayed. I also loved the very human stories of the boy Cole, his mother Lynn, and his counselor Malcolm.