![]() ![]() Larson reunites here with Cretton, whose 2013 indie gem “ Short Term 12” was one of the movies that put her on the map. And that’s surprising given that Brie Larson plays her as an adult. “The Glass Castle” is actually more compelling in its flashbacks, when Jeannette (a mature and soulful Ella Anderson) is better fleshed-out as the family’s feisty, fearless voice of reason. But the back-and-forth structure never really works: It feels episodic rather than building momentum toward its intended moments of truth. Director and co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton’s film alternates between Jeannette’s youth and teenage years and her adulthood in 1989, when she’d seemingly found stability with a job as a New York magazine writer and an engagement to an ambitious financial advisor. ![]()
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