After three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 distinct personalities they must find some of the different personalities that can help them while running away and staying alive from the others.
M Night Shyamalan is back to his best in a film featuring spectacularly wide-ranging work from James McAvoy.
This psycho-thriller showcases an awards-worthy performance from James McAvoy. Shyamalan papers over plot-holes with dry black humour and well-judged suspense, and — as always — holds back some surprises.
This is a Shyamalan movie through and through. And it’s his best in some time, thanks to a magnetic McAvoy.
As the absurdities mount, the film loses its edge. For all the thrills along the way, Split doesn’t have any clear sense of its identity or of where it is headed or why.
Tense, funny, weird.
This suspenseful tale is surprisingly satisfying thanks to clever plotting and a fine performance from James McAvoy as a man with two dozen personalities.
It’s hard to imagine that Split will be embraced by mental health professionals but it makes for a tense, heart-inthe-mouth cat-and-mouse thriller.
James McAvoy possesses multiple personalities in an ambitious supernatural thriller that could nonetheless do with a few scares.
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