Sure it's M Nights best rated movie in almost 15 years, but even that rating is a 55/100 I wouldn't call it a success.
Isn't his most popular movie rated 64/100? He's never been a filmmaker who appealed to the critics, nor does he really make the kind of movies that critics would appraise.
He's pretty much as hit and miss as most other genre-specific directors; for instance Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, Eli Roth, Hideo Nakata or any of the Blumhouse group; they all strike out as often as they knock it out of the park. The only thing that differentiates Shyamalan from his cult genre peers was the Star Wars level box-office of The Sixth Sense, which seemed to make people expect him to become something he wasn't.
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