‘Old’ Review: M. Night Shyamalan is back to his gloriously weird ways
The filmmaker rebounds from the mismanaged Glass to deliver a beachside allegory as funny and tense as it is poignant. Author: David Lynch (KENS 5) Published: 3:44 PM CDT July 24, 2021 Updated: 10:02 PM CDT July 24, 2021
I hope M. Night Shyamalan is having a pleasant weekend.
I hope the director – for a long time one of the movies’ weirdest mainstream imagineers, the creator of genre classics for which consensus opinion may be impossible – is greeting the release of his latest, “Old,” envisioning not what audiences might say after leaving the theater but rather the squints and disoriented glances that’ll inevitably appear on the faces of those fitfully trying to decipher his latest bewildering design.