Split

Teenagers Casey (Taylor-Joy), Marcia (Sula) and Claire (Richardson) are abducted by multiple-split-personality Kevin Crumb (McAvoy). Casey plays Kevin’s alter egos off each other, and learns they’re expecting the arrival of a malign new personality.

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Shyamalan shouldn’t be discounted either. Despite a long detour that made viewers wonder if he’d ever find his way again, he’s back in fine form.

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A welcome return to form from 'The Sixth Sense' director M. Night Shyamalan, whose unhinged new mind-bender is a worthy extension of his early work.

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Its primary story is self-contained, and ends in a way that’s both satisfying and utterly in tune with its own genre heritage.

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M. Night Shyamalan makes a good movie!

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It also ends the proceedings on a catastrophically bad note for what it’s trying to do — but, hey, you’ll sometimes trip when you dance between tones so much.

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Split is personal and outlandish, with riveting plotting, somber storytelling, and elegant construction.

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While McAvoy is known for his dramatic roles, and as the young Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" franchise, he's delightful when let off the leash and allowed to show off his loud, campy, unhinged side.

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M. Night Shyamalan's story of a kidnapper with serious identity issues is an acting showcase – and first-rate creepfest.

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Within the process of watching an M. Night Shyamalan film, there exists a parallel and simultaneous process of searching for its inevitable twist.

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James McAvoy's over-the-top villain bounces between 23 different identities in director's return to form.

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James McAvoy captivates as a kidnapper with 23 personalities, but the real surprise is that Shyamalan mostly suppresses his instinct to overreach.

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McAvoy wows as a sinister Sybil in Shyamalan’s ‘Split’.

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Split is lurid and ludicrous, and sometimes more than a little icky in its prurient, maudlin interest in the abuse of children. It’s also absorbing and sometimes slyly funny.

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James McAvoy throws himself into multiple parts in M Night Shyamalan's taut, grisly comeback.

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Despite his reputation, M. Night Shyamalan has never lived and died by the twist.

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Split is never as clever or poignant as it thinks it is, but James McAvoy won't let it be forgotten, either.

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Give James McAvoy an award (or 24) for his performance in Split.

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For all the outrageousness of Kevin’s alters, the movie falls oddly flat: less tantalizingly enigmatic “et cetera” than “blah blah blah.”

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You can see why McAvoy was drawn to the role — it’s as if he’s playing every character in a very populated if not particularly well-scripted play — and he demonstrates a shellacked creepiness that’s effective. But Shyamalan can’t find much else that’s new or appealing in this overlong girls-in-peril exercise.

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In short, we are watching an old-fashioned exploitation flick — part of a depleted and degrading genre that not even M. Night Shyamalan, the writer and director of Split, can redeem.

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In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder abducts high-schoolers and threatens them with something even darker than kidnapping.

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