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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Jul 2021

Old is, at times, clumsy and obvious, but it’s different and weird, and it taps into something essential…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 22 Jul 2021

M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller, Old, is campy, poorly written, candy-colored and subtle as Eurovision…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Jul 2021

The film has flashes of clumsiness that should be familiar to those who have stepped before into the Twilight Zone of its maker’s imagination…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for IGN (1,013) on 22 Jul 2021

Old isn't M…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 22 Jul 2021

For all of Old‘s flaws – and those flaws are bounteous! – it’s a film with energy; a film with life…

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By Nick Allen (397) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Jul 2021

Old is so playful that even the finale has an extra nature to it; it gives you way more than you thought you were going to get 90 minutes previous…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 22 Jul 2021

The movie, and I don’t think I’m over- or under-selling this, is pure chaos…

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By Joshua Rivera (91) for Polygon (677) on 22 Jul 2021

Old is a pretty lousy horror film about adults, but a pretty good one about children…

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By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jul 2021

In the moments when Old works, it’s because M. Night Shyamalan embraces the inherent weirdness of his material…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 22 Jul 2021

Old is a fiendish idea only partially realized…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Jul 2021

Sadly, the film crashes when it decides to offer some sane explanations and connect dots that didn’t really need to be connected…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Jul 2021

Is the central hook in “Old” enough? For many, I suspect, the answer will be not quite…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for The New York Times (9,847) on 22 Jul 2021

Shyamalan’s fluid filmmaking style, outstanding features of which are an almost ever-mobile camera and a bag of focus tricks, serves him…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Empire (3,446) on 22 Jul 2021

A Twilight Zone–worthy premise, subtly sold by ace make-up effects, makes for a decent-enough thriller, intriguing in the moment but ultimately…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Screen Rant (892) on 22 Jul 2021

While Old is certainly a different kind of thriller, with plenty of elements that work to create a sense of tranquility and desperation in…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 22 Jul 2021

By the time “Old” is over, the strongest feeling it leaves us with is that it just got 108 minutes shorter…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 22 Jul 2021

Of course, it all comes down to a Shyamalan-style final twist — the most entertaining part of the film, but it comes way, way too late…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Jul 2021

Despite an intriguing premise, some Hitchcockian camerawork and a few effective shock scares, this is a thudding disappointment with surprisingly…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 Jul 2021

The filmmaker’s diminishing capacity for recognizing naturalistic human behavior once again presents a problem when the time comes for audiences…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 Jul 2021

Old grabs you right away, starts losing you at the half-hour mark, pulls you back in with some agreeably bonkers set-pieces, drags you through…

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