This may not be M. Night Shyamalan's worst movie, though it's surely his most disappointing.

| Feb 19, 2020

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.

| Mar 21, 2019

With a movie jumping from character to character so often, it just didn't have flow or pacing or tone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2019

I went with it... I thought this was Shyamalan's best film since Signs.

| Jan 29, 2019

This is a gripping, intelligent psychological thriller that is lifted beyond "normal" by McAvoy and all the people inside him.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 26, 2019

There are a few thoughtfully placed cameras and thrilling moments - Bruce Willis vs. a door, for one - but they're not nearly enough to make this self-conscious live-action comic book worthwhile.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 25, 2019

Frustrating and mediocre, and not the Unbreakable sequel many fans have waited 18 years for. McAvoy impresses once again, however the lack of narrative rigour makes it hard to care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 25, 2019

Hollywood and its superhero franchises are all but coextensive, and Shyamalan's confrontation with the ubiquity, popularity, and dominance of superheroes gives "Glass" a second-level urgency.

| Jan 21, 2019

Shyamalan is incredibly gifted. He's also suffering from delusions of grandeur.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2019

The metaphors are messy (trauma makes people extraordinary?) and the pacing's off, but it's fun to see the individual films' universes crossing over.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2019

Most filmmakers today don't take risks of this scale with original stories. Shyamalan didn't take the safe route, and in so doing, will polarize audiences.

| Original Score: B | Jan 19, 2019

You have to admire Shyamalan's efforts to deconstruct a genre that he evidently loves, yet there is just so little to haunt or to fool us in the result, and a few sharp laughs might have helped his cause.

| Jan 18, 2019

Shyamalan - back on the downward swoop of his career sine-wave - inadvertently demonstrates that the Unbreakable punchline cannot sustain even casual analysis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2019

Why was Shyamalan, who has directed at least four objective failures over the course of his career, allowed yet another chance to prove what a disappointment he can be?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 18, 2019

The concept is intriguing but the emotional payoff is negligible, the surprise ending is feeble and the whole enterprise resembles a recycling bin.

| Jan 18, 2019

For those intrigued but not anticipating too much, it's the sort of flawed but reasonably entertaining effort that can be viewed as "Glass," half full.

| Jan 18, 2019

It is a successful movie on its own terms and an ideal closing chapter to M. Night Shyamalan's Eastrail 177 trilogy.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 18, 2019

"Glass," it turns out, is broken.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 18, 2019

It is a frequently clever elaboration of the "Unbreakable" morality tale and, to me, that feels like enough.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2019