15 Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
5. The Sixth Sense
Ranking: #5
Earnings: $672,806,292
M. Night Shyamalan might've lost his way for a while, but he is a genuinely talented artist with the right material. In films such as this, Unbreakable and Signs, he was a master of mixing suspenseful genre narratives with meaningful human stories.
In his breakout film, Shyamalan was at his peak and The Sixth Sense is now nearly 20 years old, but its power has not diminished at all. Unfortunately, everyone focuses on the twist and while the twist is clever, it doesn't actually make any sense and is one of the least-interesting parts of the movie. The movie really works thanks to its great performances from Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and Toni Collette, Shyamalan's wonderfully subtle direction and his meaningful, genuinely moving screenplay.
It works very well on the whole as both a drama and as a horror film, since it's highly refined on a dramatic level but is also hugely frightening at times and is full of effective jump scares.
While occasionally slow, The Sixth Sense is an enormously impressive film and the only time Shyamalan ever reached such heights again was with his next film, Unbreakable.