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Time Isn't On Your Side
Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/04/2021
Luckily for all of us, M. Night Shyamalan has left the era of blockbusters behind to focus on what he does best - slow-building horror and, yes, with a twist at the end. After the one-two misfires of Last Airbender and After Earth, the director went back to his roots with The Visit and followed it up with Split (one of my personal favorites) and the disappointing followup Glass. Now we have Old, in which a group of people on a tropical getaway find themselves on a secluded beach, a beach they find they cannot leave, as they suffer from an accelerated time that has years passing in a matter of hours. But, as Shyamalan himself has said, the movie is really about family - and how to deal with growing up and, yes, growing old.
Our main family unit is Guy (Gael García Bernal), wife Prisca …