I Saw the TV Glow
critic Reviews
, 84% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- With a distinctive visual aesthetic that enhances its emotionally resonant narrative, I Saw the TV Glow further establishes writer-director Jane Schoenbrun as a rising talent.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWenlei MaThe Nightly (AU)
I Saw the TV Glow is a confident, original film, birthed and crafted in a way that feels wholly different to anything you’ve seen before – certainly not in mainstream Hollywood cinema.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreStephen RomeiThe Australian
The ending is the rawest and best part of this unconventional movie.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJake WilsonThe Age (Australia)
The power of I Saw the TV Glow lies precisely in its ambiguity, which may go deeper than was intended.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDanny LeighFinancial Times
Many moments unnerve, and a few may even alienate, but the sum is grandly and potently itself.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWendy IdeObserver (UK)
With its shapeshifting disquiet, I Saw the TV Glow is too languidly weird, too unmoored from genre conventions to be neatly categorised. But there’s not a frame in Jane Schoenbrun’s suffocating second feature that isn’t drenched in dread and unease.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTara BradyIrish Times
The mythology, which becomes increasingly disturbing, is meticulous. But the same material proves a rich seam, a tale of roads not taken, a story that will speak to anyone who experienced an awkward pubescence or the jouissance of pop-culture enthusiasms.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreErnesto DiezmartinezLetras Libres
Challenging and disturbing, the film directed by Jane Schoenbrun portrays a pair of existences lived in the virtual world that unfolds on every screen to which we are connected. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCarlos LosillaCaimán Cuadernos de Cine
Deserves from now on a place of honor in the heart of self-referential fictions in the history of cinema, precisely because it challenges it with vivacity, passion and an infectious sadness. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreNoah BerlatskyEverything is Horrible (Substack)
Strange, slow, downbeat, and adamantly unempowering, it’s not going to be for everyone. Which, is, I think, part of the point.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlly HamThe Review Geek
I actually think the “in-your-face-ness” of it all respects just how big and yearning our feelings are when growing up... There’s no subtlety about those feelings when you’re having them, and Schoenbrun acknowledges that with empathy.
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