The film features a variety of sub-par supporting performances.

| Original Score: 0/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

Too washed-out and worthless to even be so bad it's good.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 22, 2012

The sheer amateur writing, acting, and directing make "Glitter" yet another disastrous vanity vehicle that brings down Carey and everyone starring.

| Apr 29, 2009

Nothing redeemable could possibly have come out of Kate Lanier's ill-fated script.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Vondie Curtis-Hall tries to invigorate the bland script by careening his cameras throughout the streets and club life of Manhattan while Carey's glorious voice is drowned out by sheets of off-key cliches.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 31, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2007

The best parts of this dud are the ones in which she's singing. This is what she does best. This is what she should stick to. Save your money and watch her videos for free on cable music-television networks.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2007

A guilty pleasure.

| Dec 30, 2006

Heroically bad.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

This fails to convince on several levels: Carey's assumed edginess; Beesley's faltering Brooklyn accent; turns from such celebs as rapper Da Brat and soul vocalist Eric Benet; the half-hearted '80s references and the haphazard retro effects.

| Jun 24, 2006

Mariah Carey should have taken an acting class from Marky Mark Wahlberg. The first lesson: start small.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 20, 2003

It was almost physically uncomfortable watching the performances in Glitter.

| Original Score: F | Dec 17, 2002

Glitter lacks sparkle.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 19, 2002

your standard-issue "I turned around and I was famous" melodrama, set in an implausibly wholesome-looking 1983 club world, where most of the folks dress oddly, but generally are just about as nice as pie.

| Jun 9, 2002

If nothing else, at least it killed a career. Max Beesely looks like a porno Luke Skywalker...The Shaggs had more talent.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 19, 2002

It's so badly botched that it's entertaining ... for all the wrong reasons.

| Mar 14, 2002

If poor Mariah Carey suffered a well-publicized breakdown prior to the release of this disposable display, imagine what she'll feel like to learn that she may have appeared in one of the worst ill-advised pointless flicks of the year.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 4, 2002

So blatantly takes every bit of its formula to the furthermost extremes, it becomes a comedy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 26, 2002

Though unintentional laughs are there to be had ... Glitter never quite crosses into the so-bad-it's-good realm to make the film worthwhile.

| Dec 23, 2001