The Glass House (2001) Critic Reviews
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It is surprising that no matter how much we know what will happen, we never stop watching.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
This is trash on a big budget, but trash nonetheless.Read the full review
The Glass House is hardly insane, just absurd, and the only damage it does is to itself.Read the full review
It may be lulling to know, almost from the outset, where the plot is going, but thrilling -- or even psychological -- it is not.Read the full review
So laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
