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The Glass House
Metascore
34 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 7 out of 17
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  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    70
    It is surprising that no matter how much we know what will happen, we never stop watching.
  2. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    70
    While the specifics of the plot are often as fragile as an actual glass house, those looking for a good night of disposable entertainment will find it here.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    Something that gets your motor racing briefly, but which you've seen all too often.
  4. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Philip Wuntch
    63
    A workmanlike thriller that works. The film is a victory for both first-time feature director Daniel Sackheim and budding star Leelee Sobieski.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    58
    As the supporting cast gets winnowed away, though, we're left with a cat-and-mouse game between girl and murderous faux-dad that's simply boilerplate.
  6. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    58
    Has a good cast, a nicely sustained mood of paranoia and several genuinely creepy moments, but ultimately ends up being one more highly formulaic teen screamer.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    If you want to see a great movie about a couple of kids endangered by a sinister guardian, rent "Night of the Hunter." Watching The Glass House has all the elements for a better film, but doesn't trust the audience to keep up with them.
  8. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    50
    The standout performances by Sobieski and Skarsgaard, and the sense of foreboding aided by the deliberate pace of this suspenseful script, polish off the rough edges.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    The cast, including genre veteran Bruce Dern as a kindly lawyer, do their best with the material, but you can't make a crackling thriller out of soggy cliches.
  10. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    40
    Ludicrous but not quite the howler it could and should have been.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    25
    This is trash on a big budget, but trash nonetheless.
  12. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    20
    Psychological thrillers depend on convincing audiences to suspend disbelief, but this one doesn't manage that for a moment.
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  13. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Steve Davis
    20
    It is truly one of the year's dumbest movies.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    20
    The Glass House is hardly insane, just absurd, and the only damage it does is to itself.
  15. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    20
    It may be lulling to know, almost from the outset, where the plot is going, but thrilling -- or even psychological -- it is not.
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  16. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    10
    So laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all.
  17. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    10
    There's nothing in genredom quite so unhinged as the badly made psycho-thriller, and long before it's over, The Glass House collapses from wretched design and execution.
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