Made with low-budget horror production company Blumhouse, "Split" represents for Shyamalan, more than a return to form, but a return to making the sort of film that truly draws on his particular narrative and technical skills. The result is a wildly entertaining, unabashed B-movie.
Elle
Arriving nearly 20 years after his halcyon Hollywood tenure and ten since his last major release, "Elle" suggests that Verhoeven is still at it. As graphic, bloody, and politically incorrect as any of his more notorious efforts, "Elle" takes what appears to be a rape-revenge genre film and turns it into a character study, alternately examining and flouting the culturally imposed balance of power between the genders.