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The Glass Castle

2017

Destin Cretton

Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson, Max Greenfield ...

6.5

3,951

Drama A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

	Author	Review
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Affecting and never mawkish, despite a few heavy-handed lapses (...) Successfully captures the essence of the memoir, with exceptionally potent work by Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"While it’s exciting to see Brie Larson working with 'Short Term 12' director Destin Daniel Cretton again, she’s not in the film nearly enough (...) It offers at best a fragmented portrait"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig The Wrap	"'The Glass Castle' is a far better book than movie (...) Perhaps the biggest failure of the film lies with its emotional tenor and the desire for a redemptive, upbeat ending. It’s the wrong approach entirely."	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"While he has a fascinating story and another stirring Larson performance, the results are minor and decidedly more middlebrow (...) The movie’s simple resolution almost feels like a shrug"	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly Time Out	"Reflective and cumulatively poignant (...) Richly built (...) It’s a movie with an emotionally stirring father-daughter story proudly at its core (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	New York Daily News	"Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson shine (...) Rex Walls alternately infuriates and breaks your heart (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It’s both too tidy and too messy, and at the same time neither quite wild nor quite sensible enough."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Legendary memoir gets the mediocre-movie treatment (...) The film version is directed with off-putting artificiality (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	John Hazelton Screendaily	"[Larson and Cretton] re-team for the affecting, if less intense and occasionally meandering drama of 'The Glass Castle' (...) Larson never really gets to show off the acting chops that won her a haul of awards for 'Room'"	NEU

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