Well, I KNEW I was pretty out of things, and this just confirms it! I had seen Ebert's review on TV, but Roeper loved "The Village" (of course, between the two of them, I more often agree with Ebert than Roeper -- but Ebert frequently fails to get the deeper significance of movies I find more or less profound, like "X-Men" or "The Chronicles of Riddick"), and that's all I knew of the critics.

Then, the four people I knew who'd seen the film all recommended it to me for different reasons. But it's been weeks since I caught up on the LJ discussions, so sorry for speaking so blithely, without knowing in which direction the prevailing winds really had been blowing!

I'll go read your entry, now, and stop talking through my hat! *rueful grin*