2019 · thriller · drama · sci-fi
Glass
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan2h 9m2019
In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Our read: Glass (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive thriller · drama · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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How Glass feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want comic-book realism colliding with Shyamalan meta-twist conversation fuel.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if talky psychiatric drama and divisive franchise payoff will frustrate you.
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