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‘TRAP’ IS A PRISONER OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S SHORTCOMINGS

Josh Hartnett plays a loving father who happens to be a serial killer in the
wildly implausible thriller.

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In “Trap,” Josh Hartnett plays a serial killer who ends up in the FBI’s
crosshairs when he takes his daughter (Ariel Donoghue) to a pop concert. (Warner
Bros. Pictures)
Review by Thomas Floyd
August 2, 2024 at 11:21 a.m. EDT
(2 stars)

The M. Night Shyamalan resurgence — if that’s the right word for the
writer-director’s recent string of bankable but creatively spotty films — has
followed a consistent enough formula: Pull off a well-worn genre exercise, weave
in some half-baked psychodrama and hope the audience doesn’t overthink it.

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Consider 2016’s “Split,” a supernaturally tinged hostage drama undermined by a
rudimentary reading of abuse. Or 2021’s “Old,” an unsettling body horror flick
packed with blunt-force observations on time’s all-consuming erosion. Last year,
“Knock at the Cabin” lined its home-invasion framework with a didactic depiction
of homophobia’s evils.


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