Fresh
Mixing Spielbergian child-like wonder, disaster movie spectacle and the cod-religious silliness of M Night Shyamalan's 'Signs'. The premise is compelling, but the execution is over-cooked.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Knowing
What happens when the numbers run out?
2009 · 2h 1m · PG-13
Action, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Alex Proyas
Overview
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Director and cast
- Alex Proyas Director
- Nicolas Cage as John Koestler
- Rose Byrne as Diana Wayland
- Chandler Canterbury as Caleb Koestler
- Ben Mendelsohn as Phil Bergman
- Nadia Townsend as Grace Koestler
- D.G. Maloney as The Stranger
- Terry Camilleri as Cashier
- Lara Robinson as Lucinda Embry / Abby Wayland
- Alan Hopgood as Rev. Koestler
- Adrienne Pickering as Allison
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
34%
Tomatometer
Rotten
There's nothing really special about this film, other than an interesting premise.
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
Rotten
Things started to fall off of the deep end very quickly.
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
Rotten
If Alex Proyas' Knowing were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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