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Shattered Glass
Lions Gate Films Inc.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language, sexual references and brief drug use
Starring
Hayden Christensen,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Chloë Sevigny,
Melanie Lynskey,
Steve Zahn,
Hank Azaria,
Rosario Dawson,
and
Luke Kirby
A study of a very talented - and at the same time very flawed - character. It is also a look inside our culture's noblest profession, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called into question. (Lions Gate Films)
GENRE(S): |
Drama
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WRITTEN BY: |
Billy Ray
Buzz Bissinger (article)
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DIRECTED BY: |
Billy Ray
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RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 23, 2004
Video: March 23, 2004
Theatrical: October 31, 2003
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RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Presents Glass as a masterfully corrupt fabulist who convinced himself of the ultimate seductive lie, which is that there can't be anything wrong with telling people what they want to hear.
100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
All give heartfelt, unflashy performances that help make Shattered Glass one of the season's most thoughtful offerings.
100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
A moral, not a moralistic, movie. It's also a bracing aesthetic achievement, creating a fictional version of a factual case that illuminates as it entertains.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The sharpest journalism thriller I've seen in years: 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.
90
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The interplay between Glass and Lane is riveting and rigorous.
90
Newsweek
David Ansen
Writer-director Ray has a no-fuss style that is quietly, thoroughly gripping.
90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
An astute and surprisingly gripping drama not only about the ethics of magazine writing, but also, more generally, about the subtle political and psychological dynamics of modern office culture.
88
USA Today
Mike Clark
You get the sense that there's probably more to the story than you get here. But the movie's moral will soon be indelible: You just can't fake it in the Internet age.
88
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Against very steep odds, writer-director Billy Ray and company have, in telling the real-life story of fictionalizing "New Republic" writer Stephen Glass and his downfall, produced the most entertaining inside-journalism movie since "All the President's Men."
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is smart about journalism because it is smart about offices; the typical newsroom is open space filled with desks, and journalists are actors on this stage; to see a good writer on deadline with a big story is to watch not simply work but performance.
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In a sense, Shattered Glass is a parenthetical horror movie in which someone discovers (or worse, denies) the monster within themselves.
80
Film Threat
Clint Morris
Whilst not an A grade psychological profile by any means, Ray has still crafted a meticulously enjoyable film. Its as gripping as it is disturbing, and as well performed as it is mysterious.
80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A smart, suspenseful drama, starring Hayden Christensen, that honors its own factual roots as no movie about journalists has done since "All the President's Men."
80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What is a most pleasant surprise is how emotionally involving a story writer-director Billy Ray has fashioned, how he's turned Shattered Glass into a film for anyone who cares about strong drama.
80
Empire
William Thomas
Gripping, claustrophobic drama.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
By retelling Glass' pathetic tale, Shattered Glass reminds you how our culture's emphasis on success and stardom in any field -- and the betrayal of ethics to attain them -- has a cumulative, corrosive effect on society, no matter how small the stage may be.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
May be light when it comes to psychological questions, but its detailed accounting of Glass' actions makes for fascinating viewing.
75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The film never digs deep enough into the pressures on Glass from his family, his peers and himself to achieve psychological depth. But as an inside look into the hothouse of journalism, it's dynamite.
75
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Quite entertaining.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
An impressively compelling film.
75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Shattered Glass, with its dumb title, is smart about good vs. evil. Incidentally, the good is Lane, who now works at The Washington Post and was a consultant on this picture.
75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The issues the film raises are truly profound and discomfiting whether you work in the media or just consume it.
70
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
Scrupulously accurate, sometimes-tedious account of Stephen Glass' malfeasance.
70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Given recent similar incidents of young con artists posing as journalists, this is a timely and compelling film, but I wish the filmmakers had widened their focus to address the kinds of journalistic corruption that go beyond simple fibbing.
70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Credibly and absorbingly relates the tale of journalistic fraud perpetrated by young writer Stephen Glass at the New Republic five years back.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Although the substance could have used more visual style, Ray tells an uncluttered story and draws strong performances from his actors.
70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Shattered Glass simply sinks its teeth into a juicy story, never better than when Sarsgaard methodically paints the sniveling Christensen into a corner.
70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Far and away the strongest performance in Shattered Glass is Peter Sarsgaards.
70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Smart, tightly coiled.
70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
It's almost inconceivable how Glass could have gotten away with so much, but the movie makes a convincing case for how Glass used office politics, the good faith of his editors and his own personal charisma to get away with the worst offenses a journalist could commit.
63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The sheer loathesomeness of protagonist Stephen Glass as portrayed by Hayden Christensen makes Shattered Glass hard to watch.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Fails on a couple of levels. It never really gives you a sense of the psychology, the root causes behind Glass' elaborate frauds... And since we don't know the why, the how becomes considerably less interesting.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The makers of Shattered Glass ignore this obvious give-and-take reality, and substitute the hoary myth that, save for the odd lying devil, the free press is a bastion of the gospel truth. Even here, then, the facts get shaped to fit the theme. Ironically, had they not, it would have made for a helluva better story.
60
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Writer-director Billy Ray is so eager to be fair-minded about everything and everyone that you can't help thinking he's a patsy, too. If he directed a movie of Othello, he'd probably try to make us feel warm and fuzzy about poor, misunderstood Iago.
50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The Sarsgaard slow burn is only marginally more compelling than the Christensen simper; like its subject, the movie is self-important yet insipid.
50
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
As a whole, Shattered Glass is carefully constructed, intently played, and shot with creepy calm. It is also, by a considerable margin, the most ridiculous movie I have seen this year. [3 November 2003, p. 104]
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It irks the ink out of me to see Lane exalted as a hero for doing what any responsible editor would do, then being paid to consult on his own canonization.
50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Uses a wraparound story to provide a hint of Glass deep-seated pathology, but allows no details about how it came into being.
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