Critic Reviews

• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

  Glover, who appears in the film as a kind of barbarian dictator-auteur, lacks both the self-imposed ideological innocence and the talent for composing sounds and images of David Lynch.

• Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

  A shocker, but not a world-class one.

• Laura Kern, New York Times

  His directorial debut, What Is It? -- which plays as part of a double bill with a live, enthusiastically performed slide show in which Mr. Glover displays pages from his recent series of books -- is just as unclassifiable as he is.

• Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film

  It isn't the blatant affronts - the aspects aimed to shock - that upset me, but the fact that the film lacks heart.

• Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly

  It's clear that [director] Glover is less interested in narrative than in rekindling a rich midnight-movie/avant-garde tradition that encompasses everything from Maya Deren and Jack Smith to Alejandro Jodorowsky and David Lynch.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  The film, for all of its very explicit connections to other works, is still a thing of unique madness.

• Daniel Wible, Film Threat

  If you're like me, i.e. an abnormally functioning film critic, you're likely to find it fascinating and utterly hilarious.

• Eric D. Snider, EricDSnider.com

  It's weirdness for weirdness' sake, and while I disagree fundamentally with a film that has no purpose other than to make you go 'huh ... that was odd,' I do concede that most of the weirdness in this case is at least interesting weirdness.

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