Definitely a great Shyamalan film. There's no real bandwagon effect here.
What happens is that people are letting the marketting of the film outweigh the fact that this is an M. Night Shyamalan film. It's not going to be a fast paced horror film or any such thing. It's going to take you on a ride through his world watching his characters react to what they've been given.
Here's my order of favorite M. Night films:
1: Signs
2: The Village
3: The Sixth Sense
4: Unbreakable
5: Wide Awake
and I've never seen "Praying with Anger" and I don't know if I ever will.