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53 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Total FilmMatt MaytumTotal FilmMatt MaytumShyamalan concludes his secret trilogy with a film easier to admire than love. McAvoy is terrific again, but Glass doesn’t quite live up to the lofty heights of Unbreakable and Split.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAs a trilogy-closer, it's a mixed bag, tying earlier narrative strands together pleasingly while working too hard (and failing) to convince viewers Shyamalan has something uniquely brainy to offer in the overpopulated arena of comics-inspired stories.
- 58The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezUltimately, Glass is a killer concept that suffers from a wobbly execution. Shyamalan nails the intimate stuff, but that third act is just bound to shatter and confound audience expectation.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s good to see Shyamalan back (to a degree) in form, to the extent that he’s recovered his basic mojo as a yarn spinner. But Glass occupies us without haunting us; it’s more busy than it is stirring or exciting.
- 50Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganDespite the pyrotechnics of McAvoy’s performances and Willis’s grounded conviction, there’s just not enough here past the high concept of “what if real people were superheroes?”.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThe trouble with Glass isn’t that its creator sees his own reflection at every turn, or that he goes so far out of his way to contort the film into a clear parable for the many stages of his turbulent career; the trouble with Glass is that its mildly intriguing meta-textual narrative is so much richer and more compelling than the asinine story that Shyamalan tells on its surface.
- 40TheWrapMonica CastilloTheWrapMonica CastilloPerformances aside, Glass is a pretty mixed bag of exposition-filled dull moments and pedantic dialogue.
- 40It’s a movie ostensibly interested in how comic book stories work, but it has the same problems as a lot of the comic book movies hitting the big screen these days. The big twist: Shyamalan seems to have not learned very much at all from his own movies.
- 30ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerGiven the visual and intellectual sophistication in the superhero movies Hollywood now churns out at a regular clip, Glass just doesn’t cut it.