owen gleiberman of "variety" wrote: "it's good to see shyamalan back (to a degree) in form, to the extent that he's recovered his basic mojo as a yarn spinner. but "glass" occupies us without haunting us; it's more busy than it is stirring or exciting. maybe that's because revisiting this material feels a touch opportunistic, and maybe it's because the deluge of comic-book movies that now threatens to engulf us on a daily basis has leeched what's left of the mystery out of comics." richard roeper of the "chicago sun-times" called the film "an underwhelming, half-baked, slightly sour, and even off-putting finale." joshua rivera of "gq" magazine stated "the timeline is barely comprehensible, with twists so openly telegraphed they’d have saved the "titanic"."