Shattered Glass Reviews
Boulder Weekly
While Sean Penn grabs the headlines for his emotive bluster in Mystic River,Peter Sarsgaard gives a brilliantly measured performance as editor Chuck Lane.
Atlantic City Weekly
Hayden Christensen... is charmingly slimy
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Las Vegas CityLife
Even though the story of Glass' downfall has been in the public domain for years now, Ray's makes it seem like a breaking story.
EDGE Boston
"Shattered Glass" is sharp filmmaking; one of the better independent offerings for 2003.
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| Original Score: A-
Cinema em Cena
Representa uma importante lição de ética para os profissionais de Comunicação e deveria ser exibido em todos os cursos de Jornalismo.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Long Island Press
Easily one of the most original and shrewdly crafted movies this year, amidst a glut of hollow, show-off cinematic pageantry.
Mixed Reviews
Where's the payoff, a new generation might rightly ask, in ethics?
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| Original Score: B
Window to the Movies
We don't find out why Glass did what he did, but ... maybe the why isn't as important as the how. Shattered Glass is asking us to stay on our toes.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Cinemaphile.org
...not a very theatrical film, but still concise and taut without being skimpy on necessary traits.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Q Network Film Desk
a scintillating morality play about the lengths to which some people will go in order to be accepted
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Nick's Flick Picks
Insanely undercuts exactly the characters we're most curious about, [and] scrupulously avoids the questions that are most pressing within the material.
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| Original Score: D+
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
At one point, the Glass character defines journalism as 'the art of capturing behavior,' and that's also where this movie excels...
| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Boeuf
Not since All the Presidents Men has journalistic integrity been so entertainingly scrutinized.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
A next-century All the President's Men, in which the values of enterprise reporters who took inspiration from Woodward and Bernstein are subject to corruption.
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| Original Score: B
Shadows on the Wall
The complex flashback structure is cleverly and coherently edited to keep us right with Glass through his story
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| Original Score: 4/5
PopMatters
Its understanding of the complexities of the Glass case is sharp.
Laramie Movie Scope
One of the best films of 2003.
Full Review
| Original Score: A
Top CriticDoes a superb job in presenting four of the five journalistic 'Ws' of its story: the who, what, where and when. It fails, however, on the essential 'why' of the tale.
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| Original Score: 3/5
National Post
Shattered Glass isn't the final word on the decay of journalistic ethics ... but it's a solid office movie that hints at a different set of problems currently eating away at the profession.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Jam! Movies
An actor's film free of gimmicks, and a small filmic gem.
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| Original Score: 4/5
