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4. Split

Split James McAvoy The Beast
Universal Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes: 77% (Average Score: 6.49/10)

IMDb: 7.3

The critical acclaim Split has received feels wildly excessive. Yes, it's better than many of the recent films from M. Night Shyamalan but that certainly doesn't mean Split doesn't still have quite a few issues of its own.

James McAvoy's career-best performance is completely brilliant, the rest of the cast is strong, M. Night Shyamalan's visual style is very impressive and for once his signature twist ending actually works, but as a screenplay Split is considerably less refined. It's very poorly edited and structured, it's far too long and there's also a rather distasteful, unpleasant vibe to the whole thing regarding its depiction of mental illness.

If you took James McAvoy out of the equation, would people still have enjoyed Split so much? It seems unlikely.

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