‘The Glass Castle’: Flawed but intriguing

Based on gossip columnist Jeanette Walls’ bestselling memoir, “The Glass Castle” is good enough to make you wish it were a whole lot better.

Oscar winner Brie Larson (“Room”) stars as Walls, who spent her hardscrabble childhood being yanked around the country by her eccentric parents (Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts). Despite Jeanette being ostensibly the central figure, she doesn’t get as much screen time as her father, who’s allowed to dominate nearly every scene.

The result is a strange, lopsided movie that is perhaps best viewed as Walls’ latest attempt to understand a complicated man. “The Glass Castle” is flawed but never less than intriguing. On Amazon, Google, iTunes and Vudu

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