Knock at the Cabin - Movie Reviews (2024)

“Knock at the Cabin” is a dumb story, but if there is any suspension of disbelief, it will be because the cast does their best to sell this Rube Goldbergian contrivance.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2024

With the help of a superb cast led by the phenomenal Dave Bautista - career-best performance - the filmmaker explores the emotional complexity found in the profound moral dilemmas placed upon human beings when faced with life-and-death decisions.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 25, 2023

"Knock at the Cabin" is a well-made movie, and there's not a bad performance in the entire film. But Bautista steals the show...

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Family and the bond it forms is in full focus in Knock at the Cabin, set against the backdrop of unexplainable beliefs and “Boogie Shoes” by KC and the Sunshine Band.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Knock At The Cabin is FANTASTIC. Top tier M Night Shyamalan that reminded me of why I love him as a filmmaker. Dave Bautista is PHENOMENAL & brings such humanity to a film that genuinely is the definition of life flashing before your eyes.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Knock at the Cabin is a tense thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat with it's unique premise, and impress you with it's cinematography and performances. The outcome may be a little lacklustre, but the journey is well-crafted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 24, 2023

Knock at the Cabin is middle-of-the-road fare for Shyamalan. It doesn’t reach his directorial heights, but is well above his lows. If nothing else, it’s still refreshing to see a director consistently swinging for the fences.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2023

Knock at the Cabin isn’t completely fruitless, however it’s also unremarkable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2023

Even though his spiritual successor, Jordan Peele, is reaching for the A-plus B movie torch, Night remains the industry standard.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2023

Knock at the Cabin marks M. Night Shyamalan’s return to form.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 19, 2023

For his whole career Shyamalan has crafted original tales and thrown them into the toilet. Now he takes somebody else's pointed, original terror and flushes it entirely with the kind of alterations that shows how little he understood about the book.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 13, 2023

By completely dismantling and radically reworking the third act, Shyamalan has ended up with a film that leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2023

You almost always have to decide if you’re willing to accept the obvious problems in [Shyamalan's] movies in order to also get the truly great stuff.

Full Review | Apr 21, 2023

As much as Shyamalan tries to cloak Knock at the Cabin’s central conflict in metaphysical horror and familial crisis, disbelief persists: The viewer is always aware that they are watching another trite and incurious M. Night Shyamalan film.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2023

A remarkably tense thriller with a killer premise placing the fate of humanity in the hands of one family. If it’s not Shyamalan’s best film, it’s undoubtedly in his top three.

Full Review | Original Score: 9.5/10 | Apr 16, 2023

Shyamalan's obsession with the macabre, the weird and the disconcerting has turned him easily hooked to good premises that blur once you try to develop them. Dave Bautista is an incredible actor. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 10, 2023

A movie with high stakes, but small horrors.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2023

Fans of the book will note that there will be a different ending. M Night Shyamalan is not Frank Darabont and does not yet have the directing gravitas to pull off that ending. In this current emotional atmosphere, it wouldn’t have been the right time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 18, 2023

M. Night Shyamalan doesn’t reveal his hand until the very end. And then the discussion begins. Like so many of his films, “Knock at the Cabin” prompts many more questions than it answers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 15, 2023

Shymalan’s latest is compellingly perverse and wracked with a real sense of menace, making its hopeful denouement something of a betrayal.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2023