All we see is this primitive nineteenth-century village in the midst of woods that the villagers believe to be haunted by ominous, sentient creatures who will not harm the people as long as they don't set foot in the woods. The movie has a lot of characters, and it doesn't quickly establish which ones are the most important. And alas, I found the first fifteen minutes rather slow. Only recently did I take a look at it on cable, more out of curiosity than anything else. Night Shyamalan's films since "The Sixth Sense." When "The Village" was released and subsequently panned, it seemed to fit the pattern that I myself had noticed. Besides, I had noticed a steadily downward slope in the quality of M. But the movies I love are rarely ones that have earned critical scorn, so by the law of probability I doubted that this one would be any good. I'm not saying that I regard the consensus of the critics as sacrosanct. I had very low expectations when I decided to watch "The Village," because I knew how much critics had panned it. ![]() ![]() I don't think I've ever been more shocked by how much I liked a film.
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