The sixth sense it was an immediate success was successful upon its release and quickly became the second highest-grossing film of 1999, despite M. Night Shyamalan’s status as a relatively unknown filmmaker. Today, The sixth sense offers the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating of any Shyamalan film to date, with a near-perfect critical score of 86 percent.
Personally, I find this to be one of the only releases in Shyamalan’s catalog that can be fully appreciated without a veil of irony, unlike the director’s so-bad-it’s-good projects like The event, Oldor his last release, Trap.