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Night Shyamalan’slatest mind-boggling movie,Old.
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And why is the rapper’s nose bleeding?
And where are Guy and Prisca in all this?
Bizarrely, they don’t look any older.
Sometimes the camera will pan back and forth in a ticktock pendulum fashion (get it?)
and return to its starting point to reveal a terrifying change.
The way he switches out his actors as their characters age is seamless.
(The filmmaker’s work in the verbal department is not so felicitous.
Any viewer will guess how rapid aging will treat the doctor’s stick-thin trophy wife (Abbey Lee).
The Telegraph(Tim Robey): TK DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ACCOUNT?
CAN’T ACCESS IT.
Empire(Joshua Rothkopf): Is there a twist?
No director has ever saddled himself more with the phony heft of third-act surprises.
Defiantly, it sticks to being about a haunted beach.
And that’s okay.
I loved the way the kids grew up while remaining trapped in a child’s bafflement and resentment.
Time raced by while I was watching it.
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