What’s Aged the Best?
Patient tone and pacing; twist endings; Osment; Collette; Philadelphia history
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- The patient tone and pacing remain unusual for a summer blockbuster.
- Late 1990 s revelation endings hold up and are missed.
- Osment belongs among great child performers, alongside Paquin, Garland, Temple and Billingsley.
- Osment’s arrival-home expression must register both fear of a ghost and reluctance to see another psychiatrist; the film depends on this ambiguity.
- Collette remains a powerful, Oscar-nominated performer.
- Philadelphia’s plaques and layered history make the city feel simultaneously living and dead.