The Glass Shield has a specifically cinematic vision and visual poetry ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2022

Ambition is something to respect in an artist, but Charles Burnett's police-corruption drama The Glass Shield is such a maladroit piece of filmmaking that its weighty themes and sclerotic tangle of a plot end up making it a trial to sit through.

| Original Score: D | Jul 6, 2010

A powerful moral drama that tries to deal with the racism at the root of many problems in contempo American society.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

The movie feels sketchy, as if Burnett chopped the flesh off his screenplay and left us only the bare bones.

| Jun 24, 2006

Burnett uses a socially discomforting scenario that has only vague implications of deeper malice to initiate a brave portrayal of a Caucasian-centric sort of martial law.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2005

It's a rigorous, angry piece of work, but it misses out on the psychological depths that have made Burnett's previous films among the glories of recent American independent moviemaking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2001

It has both ideas and a point of view. But the ideas are far from new, and the point of view is blatantly knee-jerk.

| Jan 1, 2000

An implausible, wearisome clunker trying to ring true but making only dull thuds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Though no masterpiece, the film is an interesting sidebar for moviegoers who try to keep up; it's like a '50s film noir oddity you catch on 3 a.m. 온라인카지노추천, only to find that it's become a more scintillating view than Ben-Hur.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Though The Glass Shield gets bogged down in some of its narrative byways, the journey, nonetheless, is rich and rewarding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000