M. Night Shyamalan's Glass is better than you've heard

Here's a twist: Glass is actually pretty good

A scene from Glass.
(Image credit: Jessica Kourkounis/Universal Pictures)

M. Night Shyamalan's new superhero movie Glass is getting pummeled by critics. It's "one big anti-climax” (per The Associated Press), "stupefying and a little sad” (yikes, Time Out) and, most chilling, "the Life Itself of superhero movies” (ouch, IndieWire). It's hovering around a dismal 35 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, not far off from some of the director's past blunders.

But here's a Shyamalan twist: Glass is actually pretty good.

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Jesse Hassenger

Jesse Hassenger's film and culture criticism has appeared in The Onion's A.V. Club, Brooklyn Magazine, and Men's Journal online, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, where he also writes fiction, edits textbooks, and helps run SportsAlcohol.com, a pop culture blog and podcast.