Knock at the Cabin

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

... 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.

Instead of pulling the rug out from under the viewer, Shyamalan goes in a direction that proves more disquieting, examining the nature of sacrifice and the bond between parents and children.

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.

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.

For all of its focus on the faces of people in our presence, Knock at the Cabin never forgets people all over the world, the people whom we will never see but will affect.

Quintessentially Shyamalan from its perplexing set up, mysterious narrative, and experimental filmmaking, it is as gripping as it is rooted in its convictions.

Knock At The Cabin is M. Night Shyamalan’s most straightforward film to date, and manages to be an intense, grounded thrill ride from beginning to end.

[...] the power to love someone or something else profoundly allows you to make choices you wouldn’t make in either anger or hate. “Knock At The Cabin” is really about this power of choice.