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The Village
Directed by
M. Night Shyamalan
PG-13
2004
1h 48m
Drama
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Mystery
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6.6
43%
57%
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A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
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Cast of The Village
Bryce Dallas Howard
Ivy Walker
Joaquin Phoenix
Lucius Hunt
Adrien Brody
Noah Percy
William Hurt
Edward Walker
Sigourney Weaver
Alice Hunt
Brendan Gleeson
August Nicholson
Cherry Jones
Mrs. Clack
Celia Weston
Vivian Percy
John Christopher Jones
Robert Percy
Frank Collison
Victor
Jayne Atkinson
Tabitha Walker
Judy Greer
Kitty Walker
Fran Kranz
Christop Crane
Michael Pitt
Finton Coin
Jesse Eisenberg
Jamison
Charlie Hofheimer
Young Security Guard
Scott Sowers
Man With The Raised Eyebrows
Zack Wall
Donald
Pascale Renate Smith
Marybeth
Jordan Burt
12-Year-Old-Boy
Jane Lowe
Brown-Eyed Girl
Charlie McDermott
10-Year-Old-Boy
Robert Lenzi
Young Man
Willem Zuur
Gerald
Liz Stauber
Beatrice
Tim Moyer
Flustered Man
Sydney Shapiro
Oldest Walker Daughter
Mia Rose Colona
Middle Walker Daughter
Chloe Wieczkowski
Youngest Walker Daughter
Sydney Wieczkowski
Youngest Walker Daughter
M. Night Shyamalan
Jay / Director / Writer / Producer
John Rusk
Radio Announcer
Joey Anaya
Those We Don't Speak Of
Kevin Foster
Those We Don't Speak Of
Sam Mercer
Producer
Scott Rudin
Producer
The Village Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 7, 2025
Watch with my kids last night and they had a good time with it. It’s fun to watch these films with my kids where they can come into the film free of the baggage of knowing what an M. Night Shyamalan film means. They can watch it, not constantly looking for the twist. So much of this film works really well. The setting along with the gradual reveal of the creatures, along with the design if the creatures themselves all build incredible tension. I often wish that Shyamalan would decide to tackle a straight forward horror thriller in the vein of A Quiet Place. I think his style is so perfectly suited to that kind of thing. I love nearly the entire cast here. Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrian Brody, Sigourney Weaver, Brendand Gleeson, Judy Greer—the cast is absolutely stacked. I could do without the obligatory Shyamalan cameo, he’s just never very good compared to the cast around him. Though, I think the end reveal works, it takes way too long to play out and it makes the end of this feel really sluggish. Really slow zoom in on the picture pretty much gives away everything the audience needs to know. Then there’s a slow reveal when Bryce’s character Ivy reaches the perimeter and then a really slow final scene of Ivy returning to the village. Just kind of a minor gripe. Really fun watch with the kids though.
Vox
Emily St. James
It all comes to a head... in perhaps the greatest sequence Shyamalan has ever filmed.
Newsweek
David Ansen
The entire solemn, portentous edifice that is The Village collapses of its own fake weight.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Thought-provoking thriller too intense for some.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Dangerously dour.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
It's hard to care about situations that have been designed only to obscure the ultimate twist.
Las Vegas Mercury
Jeannette Catsoulis
The Village is an enormous disappointment -- not because the ending is so banal, but because Shyamalan has become a director who no longer trusts his talent.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Feels as if Shyamalan is coasting.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
For those who just want a good scare, rest assured the best (and worst) of it comes across as Wait Until Dark meets The Blair Witch Project.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Shyamalan, far from being a master of suspense, hasn't yet figured out that the shadowy things you glimpse out of the corner of your eye are always scarier than those you're allowed to gaze upon directly.
Observer
Rex Reed
Another mediocre lunacy from the overrated M. Night Shyamalan.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
So meaningless and distanced in its details that it hardly stands a chance of wooing even the most willing fellow traveler.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
The Village doesn't pack quite the punch of The Sixth Sense, but it's equal to Shyamalan's last two films.
Slate
David Edelstein
Dumb's the word.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is bad, amateur work given a superficial veneer of professionalism.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
High on foreboding atmospherics and low on goosebumps.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It's tedious instead of provocative and so unconvincing as to be preposterous.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Shyamalan's best film since The Sixth Sense.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Shyamalan's most mature and least showy film to date.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A Grimm brothers fairy tale taken to the Outer Limits.
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