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Although some of the movie's changes were inevitable and the book is hardly some sacrosanct masterwork, the disruption of the story's final act makes the movie feel incoherent at best.

The electric charge of the film, when one pauses and thinks "Wait, what is this movie saying?," is grimly invigorating.

The direction shines and the script is obvious - but what else is new?

The most exhilarating and wounding film M. Night Shyamalan has made in many, many years.

Knock at the Cabin holds mystery and originality inside its walls.

For some reason, the movie doesn't cling and stick as it should.

Like its band of zealots, Shyamalan's movie is insistently menacing with a patina of compassion and empathy.

Knock at the Cabin is not the thriller you're expecting, for better or worse.

The drama that Shyamalan pursues is how reasonable and well-intentioned people can and should respond to possessed destroyers who hold them hostage. The movie's answer is a sickening one.

Like all of Shyamalan's greatest features, what unfolds throughout the course of the film is a family drama but on the grandest of scales.

Shyamalan fans will follow him off a cliff, into a tsunami or a cabin in the woods. Why? He takes them there because he can. Not because he should.

It trades stark ambiguity for big, emotional clarity in a way that still feels true to the source material, which questions the limits of one's duty to sacrifice what they love for a world that they're not even sure is worth saving.

This gets incredibly literal, clunky, and actually silly.

A rock solid adaptation of the novel. There are changes, but both versions of the story work and both existing is bound to make the conversation/analysis of this scenario even richer.

Shyamalan dazzles here with his gift for taking the kinds of ideas that once comprised the plots of pulp magazine stories, anthology television, and B movies and turning them into high art.

... Most of the pleasures of Knock at the Cabin arrive from two sources: Shyamalan's masterful filmmaking and Bautista's nuanced performance.

If there is some kind of allegory on violence that is supposed to be going on in "Knock at the Cabin," the movie and its story are certainly not smart enough for it to come to fruition.

Even though his spiritual successor, Jordan Peele, is reaching for the A-plus B movie torch, Night remains the industry standard.

M. Night Shyamalan should probably just stay away from the apocalypse.

M. Night Shyamalan can be too fuzzy and full of himself. But this doomsday thriller starring a never-better Dave Bautista as a modern horseman of the apocalypse confirms that the Sixth Sense maestro knows how to fill the screen with tension and squeeze.