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The Glass Shield
Directed by
Charles Burnett
1995
1h 49m
PG-13
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Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.
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Cast of The Glass Shield
Michael Boatman
Dep. J.J. Johnson
Lori Petty
Dep. Deborah Fields
Ice Cube
Theodore 'Teddy' Woods
Erich Anderson
D.A. Ira Kern
Bernie Casey
James Locket
Richard Anderson
Watch Cmmdr. Clarence Massey
Elliott Gould
Greenspan
Victoria Dillard
Barbara Simms
Michael Ironside
Det. Gene Baker
Natalija Nogulich
Judge Helen Lewis
Wanda De Jesus
Carmen Munoz
Michael Gregory
Dep. Roy Bush
Don Harvey
Dep. Jack Bono
Ernie Lee Banks
Mr. Woods
M. Emmet Walsh
Det. Jesse Hall
Thomas Babson
U.S. Marshall
Monty Bane
Coroner
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Assistant D.A.
Sy Richardson
Mr. Taylor
Linden Chiles
Sergeant Berry Foster
Tommy Redmond Hicks
Reverend Banks
Joseph Walsh
Councilman Ross
The Glass Shield Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Ambition is something to respect in an artist, but Charles Burnett's police-corruption drama The Glass Shield is such a maladroit piece of filmmaking that its weighty themes and sclerotic tangle of a plot end up making it a trial to sit through.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Though no masterpiece, the film is an interesting sidebar for moviegoers who try to keep up; it's like a '50s film noir oddity you catch on 3 a.m. TV, only to find that it's become a more scintillating view than Ben-Hur.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Despite studio interference, it's still a decent film, and the association of a black man and a Jewish woman (as two outcasts) is a welcome addition to the genre.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
An implausible, wearisome clunker trying to ring true but making only dull thuds.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Burnett's screenplay has a tendency to be a little too preachy, especially during the unsatisfying final scene. There's a fine line between getting the message across through subtlety and becoming didactic...
Los Angeles Times
Peter Rainer
It's a rigorous, angry piece of work, but it misses out on the psychological depths that have made Burnett's previous films among the glories of recent American independent moviemaking.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An angry anti-cop message flick directed and written to be subversive by angry LA based indie filmmaker Charles Burnett.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
The film's ambition makes Burnett's occasional overstatement easy to forgive.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
an entirely honorable - if inevitably doomed - attempt to reconcile Burnett's political and social concerns with the requisites of mass entertainment.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Burnett uses a socially discomforting scenario that has only vague implications of deeper malice to initiate a brave portrayal of a Caucasian-centric sort of martial law.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
Credit writer/director Burnett for having the courage of his convictions, even if the outcome is a film that a lot of people will see as clichéd and stereotyped.
eFilmCritic.com
Greg Muskewitz
Generic racial drama, hindered by a clubfooted direction and lumbering performances.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Though The Glass Shield gets bogged down in some of its narrative byways, the journey, nonetheless, is rich and rewarding.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A powerful moral drama that tries to deal with the racism at the root of many problems in contempo American society.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
It has both ideas and a point of view. But the ideas are far from new, and the point of view is blatantly knee-jerk.
Esquire Magazine
Calum Marsh
While it carries an unavoidable social charge, the movie never feels dogmatic or moralistic.
Women in the Life
Sheila Reid
The fact that this is a true story makes this tale of cruelty and corruption that much more more sobering.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The Glass Shield has a specifically cinematic vision and visual poetry ...
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