TheRetroCritic

Here's the video version of my Tusk review.

The film that kick-started director M. Night Shyamalan's career and established him as one of the most promising filmmakers in Hollywood, The Sixth Sense was a big hit with critics and audiences alike but how does it hold up today? Pretty well, actually. The film sees Bruce Willis play a child psychologist who, after a bad run in with a grown-up ex-patient of his, decides to help a troubled young boy (an impressive Haley Joel Osment) overcome his problems. At first, Willis' character suspects that his parents' divorce might be the cause of the boy's issues but when the latter reveals to him that he can, in fact, see dead people, he is made to promptly rethink his original theory. The Sixth Sense is a stylish, slow-burning, character-driven movie with the occasional, surprisingly effective jump-scare. It's a really well thought-out, beautifully crafted little supernatural thriller with some solid suspense, spot-on performances and an overall gloomy, somewhat u