Top 10 Most Influential Films in the Last 10 Years

Published by Jeff Leins on: September 12th, 2008

10. The Sixth Sense (1999) – There were twist endings before this movie, but The Sixth Sense redefined the surprise ending for the next decade. People still think of this movie when someone says, “there’s a twist.”

The ending was so unexpected that it created the “spoiler warning” around the time that news and reviews for film started making their way to massive audiences through the Internet.

It also established a lengthy career for a director we’d later realize was terrible, M. Night Shyamalan, and introduced Haley Joel Osment as a premiere child actor.

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