[FormerACLUmember]

M. Night Shyamalan makes deeply spiritual, utterly unique psychological films. This critic is all wrong, as are the disappointed movie-goers who want and expect digital special effects monsters and mega-violence cartoons.

I thought the Village is one of the best movies of the year, but don't look for extreme violence.

[mict42]

Amen. There is no substitute for an average IQ, even when attending a movie. I've been reading stuff in this thread that's just plain nuts. The acting was bad? Are you kidding?
Just because something didn't eat somebodies brain, half of the people commenting find it a dull movie. To this group I say, good luck in getting anything out of life.