The Glass Castle
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.
22 April 1951, New York City, New York, USA
January 1, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
28 September 1968, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
29 December 1958, Bristol, England, UK
26 February 1968, Kingston, New York, USA
September 20, 2017
Almost nothing in the movie comes close to possessing the loose-limbed authenticity of the actual Walls personalities.
September 05, 2017
Glass Castle holds your attention in the way that hard luck stories do, but Cretton's reticence in fully exploiting this tale makes for a largely frustrating experience.
August 14, 2017
There are heart-tugging moments in The Glass Castle, but Walls's bestselling memoir needed to be roughed up and aired out. For it to match up to the book, the movie needed the glass to be smashed, not every shard treasured.
August 29, 2017
A best-selling book, a promising director, and a great cast made The Glass Castle seem like a tantalizing project, but the pitfalls proved too numerous for this tricky adaptation.
August 11, 2017
Due to the herculean task of adaptation, "The Glass Castle" lacks the emotional potency of Cretton's earlier work and the unflinching detail of Walls' memoir.
August 14, 2017
Clocks in at two hours and seven minutes but it's so intense that I was hardly aware of the time.
August 11, 2017
Dark, dysfunctional, and filled with blinding hope, this is one glass house that's difficult to throw stones at.
August 13, 2017
By laminating Walls' story with a Hollywood sheen, the narrative climaxes in an artificial and contrived manner.
September 19, 2017
Larson, however, is bland like the film, and out-acted by Ella Anderson who shines as the tween Jeannette.
August 27, 2017
If you really want to know her story, you might have to read the book.
August 24, 2017
[Destin Daniel] Cretton wants to make an old-fashioned melodrama but fails to stylize the material in any compelling way
August 29, 2017
The Glass Castle tortures more than graces.
