The issues the film raises are truly profound and discomfiting whether you work in the media or just consume it.
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11/13/03
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Shattered Glass (2003)
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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:144
Rotten:14
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: A compelling look at Stephen Glass' fall from grace.
Theatrical Release:Oct 31, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $2,105,024
Synopsis: Shattered Glass stars Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such... [More]
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Chloë Sevigny
Director: Billy Ray
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Reviews for Shattered Glass
It's funny and gripping, a story about people that also happens to be about journalistic principle.
11/13/03
Top CriticThe purpose is not to suggest that some journalists are appalling, but to suggest that some of them are human, which might be even more difficult to believe.
11/13/03
It's a thoughtful, well-paced look at one pathetic kid's lies, and our equally pathetic willingness to accept them as truth.
11/13/03
An absolutely riveting drama that doesn't glorify its subject in the slightest and shrewdly says a lot of very sad things about the state of modern journalism.
11/13/03
Much like the vivid stories Glass passed off as journalism, Shattered Glass is compulsively entertaining.
11/13/03
A study in moviemaking that doesn't resonate beyond its subject matter.
11/13/03
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11/13/03
Here's a verdict that Shattered Glass makes abundantly clear: Hayden Christensen can act.
11/13/03
Although this is a journalism movie, it carries the wide appeal of a modern-day morality play.
11/13/03
Top CriticIt takes craft, insight and expert delivery to make an 'insider' story interesting to those on the outside. And that's exactly what Shattered Glass does.
11/13/03
While the storytelling relies a little too much on some clichéd devices, Shattered Glass is still a fascinating, well-acted movie with some very compelling characters.
11/13/03
A fascinating story, with enough dramaturgical potential to make a rock take notice. Unfortunately, Shattered Glass is an ignorant rock unto itself.
11/12/03
The season's unlikeliest nail-biter -- think of it as an upside-down, black-sheep cousin to Catch Me if You Can.
11/12/03
Hayden Christensen strikes all the right notes as the talented, charming and very cloying Stephen Glass, who made a huge splash at the New Republic magazine in the late 1990s with colorful stories.
11/11/03
Top CriticJoins All the President's Men, The Insider and Call Northside 777 on the list of essential journalism films.
11/11/03
A satisfying, dramatically absorbing account.
11/07/03
Top CriticAn impressively compelling film about disgraced journalist Stephen Glass.
11/07/03
Top CriticA scarily compelling thriller that puts journalistic ethics on trial.
11/07/03
Top CriticMight not increase enrollment at journalism schools the way All the President's Men did when it came out, but it's nonetheless a riveting true tale.
11/07/03
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