david ehrlich of "indiewire" gave the film a "c−" and called it the biggest disappointment of shyamalan's career: "the trouble with "glass" isn't that its creator sees his own reflection at every turn, or that he goes so far out of his way to contort the film into a clear parable for the many stages of his turbulent career; the trouble with "glass" is that its mildly intriguing meta-textual narrative is so much richer and more compelling than the asinine story that shyamalan tells on its surface." writing for "rolling stone", david fear gave the film three out of five stars ""glass" is not the flaming flop some folks have already suggested it is, nor is it the movie you want in terms of tying ambitious, highfalutin’ notions together about how we process our pulp mythos. in a world in which all movies are now either genocide or ice cream, it's a grand gesture characterized by a sense of ambivalence about what you've just seen – which may in and of itself be a sign of failure".