might find its monologues about comic books pretentious. However, I believe it comes from a genuine love of comics from Shyamalan. [...] Some may dislike it for its overflowing uniqueness, but I ended up quite captivated with it.

| Nov 16, 2024

Glass unfortunately gets bogged down in overtly precise plot mechanics and not trusting the audience to keep up that it falters in the narrative progression and thematic clarity...

| Original Score: B- | Aug 7, 2024

The problem with Glass is that the storyline is too hollow to support such ideas. It’s obvious that Shyamalan has thought a lot about theme, but in attempting to dissect it, he leaves the story and characters behind.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Aside from being a thoughtful exploration of superhuman abilities in the real world (a la “Watchmen” and “Chronicle”), the film also ends up being an ingenious deconstruction of superheroes in movies and comic books.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 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...

| 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.

| 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...

| 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.

| 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.

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

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

| 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.

| 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.

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

Personally I was underwhelmed.

| Oct 1, 2021

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

| 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.

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

One of the most baffling blockbusters ever.

| 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.

| Jul 22, 2021

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

| 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.

| Mar 29, 2021

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

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