Glass

critic Reviews

, 37% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • Glass displays a few glimmers of M. Night Shyamalan at his twisty world-building best, but ultimately disappoints as the conclusion to the writer-director's long-gestating trilogy.
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    Ben SachsChicago Reader
    This may not be M. Night Shyamalan's worst movie, though it's surely his most disappointing.
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    Jonathan RomneyFilm Comment Magazine
    You have to admire the nerve of Shyamalan for attempting something like this-and indeed, for choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent.
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    tt stern-enziWXIX-TV (Cincinnati, OH)
    It's good to have him back. It's a great looking film, it's great storytelling, and again he really takes his time.
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    Perri NemiroffPerri Nemiroff (YouTube)
    With a movie jumping from character to character so often, it just didn't have flow or pacing or tone.
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    Adam KempenaarFilmspotting
    What's disappointing isn't that Shyamalan chose not to make Unbreakable 2; it's that what began so successfully with Unbreakable has devolved into such thoroughly unsatisfying pulp, void of any real humanity.
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    Mark KermodeKermode & Mayo's Film Review
    I went with it... I thought this was Shyamalan's best film since Signs.
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    Denise PieniazekPuesta en Escena (AR)
    All three films have elements of the science fiction, but while Unbreakable and Glass are closer to mystery, Fragmented has greater thriller components. Finally, unlike the traditional superhero genre, we do not know the origins of these powers...
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    Manuel São BentoMSB Reviews
    James McAvoy offers you a performance worthy of any price of admission (...) How can a movie be so fascinating and frustrating at the same time? Shyamalan, ladies and gentlemen.
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    John BrhelVague Visages
    Overall, it’s one of the strangest, most daring superhero movies out there. Where DC trades in grim realism and Marvel does the whole snarky, joke-a-minute thing, the Shyamalanverse (I guess that a thing now) is a flavor all its own...
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    Michael GuarnieriThe Spool
    Shyamalan’s polished compositions...the use of bold, comic book-influenced coloring, and his ability to draw strong performances out of actors as disparate in style as Willis...and McAvoy—all give Glass a real sense of grounded humanism.
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