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Glass

2019

M. Night Shyamalan

James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson ...

6.2

25,210

Mystery. Thriller Following the conclusion of "Split", "Glass" finds David Dunn pursuing Kevin Wendell Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A partly satisfying conclusion to an eccentric saga."	NEU
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"[It] is not the flaming flop some (…) suggested it is, nor is it the movie you want in terms of tying ambitious (…) However, [it] contains what may be one of the scariest fade-out scenes in all of Shyamalan’s (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The issue isn’t that there’s nothing to see, but rather that there’s nothing to hide (...) Shyamalan never corners himself into his old compositional brilliance — he never uses the darkness to make us desperate for the light."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It somehow lacks the 'Whoa!' factor. (...) [It] occupies us without haunting us; it’s more busy than it is stirring or exciting. Maybe that’s because revisiting this material feels a touch opportunistic"	NEU
United Kingdom	Nick De Semlyen Empire	"Essentially a 'Split' sequel with an 'Unbreakable' topping, this is weaker than either of those films but still has a decent amount of entertaining and creepy sequences (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"A shattering disappointment and a monumental artistic misfire from one of my favorite filmmakers (...) It plays like an inadequate (and underfunded) fanfiction sequel to 'Unbreakable'"	NEG
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Yes, it’s easy to be impressed by the world that Shyamalan has created and now fleshed out, but it would be nice if we were also moved to feel something too. In the end, 'Glass' is more half empty than half full."	NEU
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"The movie is still pretty silly, of course, but its sins are more forgivable than, say,' Suicide Squad'’s useless nihilism, or 'Deadpool'’s acrid smugness (...) [It] looks great, too."	NEU
United States	Matt Singer Screen Crush	"Given the visual and intellectual sophistication in the superhero movies Hollywood now churns out at a regular clip, 'Glass' just doesn’t cut it."	NEG
United States	Monica Castillo The Wrap	"If 'Unbreakable' and 'Split' are some of the strongest works in Shyamalan’s filmography, 'Glass' holds a place somewhere in the middle between those and the titles that turned off so many moviegoers."	NEU
United States	Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"A polarizing film that combines the strengths and the weaknesses of its two predecessors in a not-altogether-successful hybrid. And yet…there’s something fascinating and complex about it nonetheless (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Sam Adams Slate	"[It] is drawn-out and disjointed, with disparate plot threads (...) that seem dictated more by its stars’ availability than narrative cohesion (...) But it’s also hard not to judge it against the movie it might have been."	NEG
United States	Don Kaye Den of Geek	"Ambitious yet flawed (...) Shyamalan seemed so interested in exploring the concepts at hand (...) that he forgot to make us care about the characters (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Rosie Knight IGN	"Despite a strong cast and an interesting concept Shyamalan never quite manages to pull together the two worlds of 'Unbreakable' and 'Split' (...) Never sure whether it's a heroic superhero story or a psychological thriller"	NEG
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"It’s both stupefying and a little sad to realize that this is the movie Shyamalan wanted to make (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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