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Lady in the Water (2006)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "It's a jaw-dropping catastrophe -- a picture so wrong-headedly intoxicated with itself you view it through an embarrassed haze." more... F   Boston Globe Wesley Morris "There is a good chunk of Lady in the Water that is simply too well made and affectingly acted to dismiss as a mere exercise in arrogance." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Jim Emerson "...who am I to knock the work of the man who, in his own film, casts himself as a writer whose ideas will inspire a future leader who will save the world..." more... C- Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "The tone of the picture feels as if Shyamalan weren't certain of how scary or whimsical or grave Lady in the Water should be." more... C- E! Online "This may be his most muddled, least satisfying flick to date, but it still has so much of that M. Night flavor..." more... B- Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...Shyamalan's most alienating and self-absorbed project to date." more... C   filmcritic.com David Thomas "...a film that manages to throw in enough twists and turns to keep you engaged until the last schmaltzy drop." more... B- Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "A fairy-tale world exists inside the quotidian but most of the magic remain locked up inside writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's head." more... C   New York Post Lou Lumenick "...a charmless, unscary, fatuous and largely incoherent fairy tale..." more... D   New York Times Manohla Dargis "A folly, true, but watchable." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "This is the biggest misfire of M. Night Shyamalan's career..." more... C- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...if Lady is a misfire for Shyamalan -- every non-hack filmmaker has them -- it is also the work of a born filmmaker." more... C   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...has the strengths and weaknesses of a one-man show." more... C   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...disastrous..." more... D   USA Today Mike Clark "...someone needs to tell the beleaguered writer/director that it's looking like 'break time.'" more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)