Maybe it's me, but the CNN review of "The Village" isn't glowing. And yet, CNN says it's his best movie ever - even better than the Sixth Sense.
As back up, they say this:
The real revelation is Shyamalan's growth as a storyteller, advancing from a modern Rod Serling specializing in "Twilight Zone" zingers to a mythmaker invoking the restrained passion of the Bronte sisters and the puritanical inhibitions of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
That doesn't sound glowing to me. That sounds... hum, how should one say it... DULL. Restrained and puritanical. Oh yea, let me rush out and see that bad boy. FYI - not that it is required for a movie to be good, but it helps - puritanical and restrained doesn't say hot, sweaty and shirtless Joaquin to me.