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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:144
Rotten:14
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: A compelling look at Stephen Glass' fall from grace.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Shattered Glass stars Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such... [More]
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Chloë Sevigny
Director: Billy Ray
Shattered Glass may not break any box-office records, but with a stellar cast, tight script, and insightful direction, it is destined to take its place in journalistic, if not cinematic, history as a warning about the dangers of ruthless ambition.
'Everybody' knows someone like Stephen Glass, and we don't always get what Billy Ray gives us in his movie: the immense satisfaction of seeing a smarmy, brown-nosing little fake get what's coming to him.
...leaves me with a sober feeling about the future of news reporting.
The film is both seductive and maddening.
In a day where news develops so quickly, Shattered Glass arrives at the right moment.
Riveting.
As directed by Billy Ray, the film has an exceptionally tight focus and a fascinating story to tell.
Ray directs for palpable tension ... but has a rudimentary, a-b-c plot.
Christensen is terrific as the deceptively boyish Glass, and his performance confirms the notion that people who act badly in George Lucas movies (he's Anakin Skywalker) aren't bad actors, they're just in George Lucas movies.
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.
Smart about good vs. evil.
A deeply unsettling tale.
The portrait of Glass is particularly sharp.
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Like a really good story (even one that's made up), the movie grabs you from the beginning and never lets you down.
Shattered Glass functions as a dramatic character study, but not as the galvanizing wake-up call about the sorry state of U.S. journalism that Ray says he wanted to make.
Excels at the kind of straight-ahead storytelling that's both involving and satisfying.
A good movie about a real-life problem journalist that unfortunately has almost nothing to do with journalism's real-life problems.
Not only an honest depiction of one journalist's rampant dishonesty but a compelling movie by just about any standard.
True story about fact, fiction and fakery is a surprisingly well-tuned thriller about morals, courage and honesty -- with a breakout performance by Peter Sarsgaard.
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