Glass Reviews: 12 Early Reactions You Need To See

12. James McAvoy Is The Easy Highlight

"Somehow, James McAvoy is even better than he was in Split as we get to see more of Kevin's personalities that make up The Horde, including a Spanish-language personality and a flirty teenager, with McAvoy taking on more than 20 different personalities. It's a magnetic and physical performance and a brilliant balancing act from McAvoy as, more than in Split, scenes require him to shift between several personalities." - Digital Spy

"McAvoy plays them with the same obscenely avid, gender-bending fluidity that made his performance in “Split” such a showboat feat. If anything, he’s more fun to watch now that he doesn’t have to be the whole show." - Variety

"Kevin is the character (technically 24 characters, though here we only see 20 in action) who dominates the film, with McAvoy on stand-out form again, toggling effortlessly between different voices and emotions, and managing to keep the Beast (essentially a cross between Pazuzu and an angry gibbon) frightening even with prolonged screen time." - Empire

To the surprise of just about nobody, the early consensus is that James McAvoy steals the show once again as Kevin Wendell Crumb aka The Horde.

While Split ended up taking a surprisingly restrained approach to unveiling Crumb's 24 separate personalities, it sounds like Glass gives McAvoy a far more wide-open canvas to work with and lets him run loose.

A few critics did note that a "less is more" approach to Crumb's antics may have proven more effective, but on the whole there's general satisfaction with McAvoy's mind-boggling ability to switch between personalities and give a totally different performance each time.