| Fortunately for film lovers everywhere, he used his brief downtime to recharge his imagination and refine his cinematic approach | For writing and directing them, he received four nomination pairs of for and , with The Last Airbender being considered one of the |
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| Maybe we should just watch the waves and enjoy the company of loved ones for as long as we have left? Even after the costly debacle that was 2010's The Last Airbender, M | Night Shyamalan's films as we adore, it always comes back to his breakout supernatural hit The Sixth Sense |
If the last 10 minutes of Signs didn't exist, it might have had a legit claim to the top spot on this list.
| The Sixth Sense's tale of a kind-hearted boy who sees dead people found the director working with a new level of confidence; honing his writing, visual acumen, and tempered emotional palette into a signature style that would permeate every film he'd make in its wake | It's also horribly self-indulgent, with Shyamalan casting himself as a writer whose book will eventually save humanity, and dispatching with a haughty film critic character in particularly nasty fashion |
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| Night Shyamalan seemed to think a break was in order | Maybe Shyamalan should've been a little more critical of himself |
While Praying With Anger lacks the supernatural elements Shyamalan has become known for, it still sees him exploring familiar themes of family, spirituality, and identity, and with a warmth and sense of humor all but absent from much of his later work.
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