The Sixth Sense
Young Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts that don't know they're dead. Cole then seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist, who is the boy's only hope.
15 February 1984
16 May 1960, Houston, Texas, USA
3 September 1971, Attard, Malta
1 November 1972, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
26 November 1986, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 23, 2017
Shyamalan remains unable to wholeheartedly capture the viewer's interest for the duration of the movie's slightly overlong running time.October 07, 2014
It takes you on an intriguing, unsettling journey.August 27, 2013
Osment's pinched, old-young face suggests an ancient's insight without an ancient's defenses -- a sensitivity so exquisitely morbid that you worry more for his emotional than physical well-being.August 27, 2013
M Night Shyamalan has fashioned a modern classic here, a chilly, intelligent, emotional ghost story that relies not on the obligatory gore and knifeplay for its many shocks but on glimpses of an afterlife that's anything but angels and harps.October 10, 2012
A delicate, emotionally attentive, but very scary ghost story.August 27, 2013
So transparent is Osment as an actor, and so rare, that the pain on his face stabs you in the heart.October 10, 2012
I was not only surprised by the film's final twist, I wasn't even looking for one. I just thought I was watching a bad movie. The end doesn't quite redeem it, but it makes you think about what you've seen. That's a saving grace of some sort.August 27, 2013
Willis turns in a measured and understated performance.October 07, 2014
Beyond these startling apparitions, there's a surplus of mumbo-jumbo in here -- and some ludicrously false notes.October 07, 2014
You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger. It becomes a clammy, chilly movie building toward a revelation that you cannot predict. As I say: I cannot tell you. You'd hate me if I did. I can only say, don't look now, but look sometime.August 27, 2013
Dr Crowe gradually comes to believe that little Cole can indeed commune with the unquiet souls, who are reaching out to him for help. And, yes, the scenes where Cole does so can be very creepy indeed.