Glass - Movie Reviews (2024)

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...

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 12, 2024

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2023

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...

Full Review | Jun 6, 2023

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.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2023

“Glass” actually worked for me and I’m anxious to see it again. But it took some time to get there, and I still find myself mulling over the final act.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

This “accidental” trilogy is engaging, suspenseful, and the payoff is low-key rather than showy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Glass is among Shyamalan's worst films, and it's all the more disappointing because by association it spoils two of his best.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 4, 2022

As a matter of fact, Glass should be a staple of how not to conclude a trilogy and how a films ending and unnecessary twist can change an entire opinion of not just a film, but its predecessors.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Personally I was underwhelmed.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2021

Episode 26: 2019 Movie Preview / Glass / Serenity / Velvet Buzzsaw / Coherence

Full Review | Original Score: 45/100 | Sep 9, 2021

Buoyed by a brilliant James McAvoy performance, but I can't send you to see this movie in the cinemas unless you are an M. Night Shyamalan fan, or an Unbreakable fan.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 17, 2021

One of the most baffling blockbusters ever.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 17, 2021

While it creeps right up next to the "believe in your own exceptionalism" theme that Shyamalan handled so poorly in Lady in the Water, here it comes tempered with humility, but it's also bringing some home truths with it.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2021

If you can overlook the problems with the script, the direction and performances are worth the price of admission.

Full Review | Original Score: 7 | Jun 24, 2021

It's time to face the facts that, by and large, Shyamalan is not a good filmmaker. He certainly has some interesting ideas, but his impulse to keep things secretive instead of playing a story straight does not serve those ideas well.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2021

In the 21st century, every movie's ending is just another beginning-as long as there's money to be made.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 21, 2021

What was likely meant to be a meditation on the genre from Shyamalan comes off more like a lecture, one that will disappoint most superhero fans and skeptics alike.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 28, 2021

I'm not sure whether Shyamalan misses in his execution, or if his entire intent is to take the super hero genre to the back alley and shoot it.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2021

The film feels like a guest who has overstayed his welcome and starts to tell another story when asked to leave. It feels much like Shyamalan's cameo in the movie - a gargantuan effort, but one that is kind of awkward.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2021

Where Unbreakable is a careful deconstruction of the superhero story, Glass is a defiant middle finger, which would have been just fine if weren't so joyless in its execution.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2021