Split (2016)

I went into this horror thriller about three girls kidnapped by a man with 23 or perhaps 24 distinct personalities confident I had worked out in advance director M Night Shyamalan's trademark twist and I am pleased to say the always fascinating Split is not one of Shyamalan's bad films like Lady In The Water but a good one like Unbreakable in that it delivers a delicious curveball in the end that is as unexpected as it is dismaying (because my ending was less surprising but better and certainly what was intended, I think, before the marketing team's endscene got tacked-on instead).

★★★★☆

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The Number 23 (2007)

Horrible, like Darren Aronofsky's Pi but for dummies, with Jim Carrey deadly serious throughout the nonsense and viewers left wondering if Joel Schumacher, for convenience, has just started numbering the turkeys he churns out.

★☆☆☆☆

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