![]() ![]() The movie, based on the graphic novel “ Sandcastle,” by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters, is centered on a tropical beach resort in an unnamed country. With “Old,” facing the constraints of filming during the pandemic-on a project that he’d nonetheless planned before it-Shyamalan has created a splendid throwback of a science-fiction thriller that develops a simple idea with stark vigor and conveys the straight-faced glee of realizing the straightforward logic of its enticing absurdity. His frequent artistic pitfall is complication-the burdening of stories with extravagant yet undeveloped byways in order to endow them with ostensible significance and to stoke exaggerated effects. ![]() M. Night Shyamalan’s new film, “Old” (which opens in theatres on Friday), is different. Science-fiction films, once a cinematic counterpart to pulp fiction, are today often big-budget, overproduced spectacles that substitute grandiosity for imagination. ![]() ![]() Just as it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken, it takes a smart filmmaker to make a stupid movie, which I mean in the best possible way. ![]()
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