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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 09 Aug 2017

This is grim material, but well worth a movie. The problem is that this film seems reluctant to really confront it…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 09 Aug 2017

Even those of us willing to accept that there are many different shades at work here will likely feel the foundation of the film fall out from…

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By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 09 Aug 2017

Score one for extremely well-adjusted kids. At least in the movies…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Aug 2017

You watch the movie, and you wonder: What was this life like, really? That’s a sign of a movie not quite answering the question…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Aug 2017

Still the spectacle of this, of beautiful, sensitive children at the mercy of damaged adults — this is what we take from The Glass Castle…

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By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 09 Aug 2017

While it’s understandable that Walls might not want to linger on the more grim aspects of her childhood, Cretton’s decision to pull punches…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 09 Aug 2017

The Glass Castle is an unfortunately flat and messy adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir about growing up with extreme poverty…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 09 Aug 2017

an unpleasant two hours ending with an image of family unity that may be hard to believe, even if true…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 09 Aug 2017

The movie is, at times, very difficult to watch--such is the pain and audience discomfort at this tale of acute parental dysfunction and the…

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By Clayton Davis (240) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 09 Aug 2017

Should be ordained as a national treasure, Woody Harrelson delivers one of his finest turns yet as Rex, the multi-layered and complex father…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 09 Aug 2017

From the title down, it arrives prepackaged and closed to interpretation, which doesn't do justice to lives defined by instability and a legacy…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 09 Aug 2017

Destin Daniel Cretton reteams with his Short Term 12 star...but it is young Ella Anderson who shines the brightest as Larson's earlier incarnation,…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 09 Aug 2017

Instead of catharsis, Cretton stages a cop out, trying to leave the audience with a feeling of comfort when the reality of situation was more…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Aug 2017

Intimate, but never actually involving, The Glass Castle at least has admirable performances to watch…

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By Max Cea (15) for Salon.com (2,725) on 09 Aug 2017

Cretton did fictionalize parts of the story, adding dramatic embellishments and narrative tissue…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 09 Aug 2017

The Glass Castle meanders toward its uplift ending, needing a few more of Cretton's clever time-jump edits, less rehashing the same personal…

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By Jose Solís (27) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 09 Aug 2017

Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle is more affected than affecting…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 08 Aug 2017

Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short Term 12”) can’t quite find that magical balance that Walls hits, and tilts the story too far…

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By Mark Kennedy (184) for Associated Press (1,685) on 08 Aug 2017

The film is both a tribute to parenting and a confessional of its absence. Like the book, it looks back without pity or sentiment…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Aug 2017

Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Walls’s book of the same name just often enough bursts to raucous life…

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