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- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmaker has remarked on the influence of ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ on this work and it is readily apparent…both familiar and unsettling, a mood…Schoenbrun allows to slide further and further towards the latter as her tale progresses over decades
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A surreal experience that blurs the lines between reality and television.
- Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
- Excerpt: I Saw the TV Glow lives up to the hype: an intensely Lynchian horror film that delivers on the promise Schoenbrun showed in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair while spinning a stunning, shimmering tale of teenage angst, suburban ennui, queer identity, and the solace sought in the strange world of a mysterious television show.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Schoenbrun uses I SAW THE TV GLOW’s supernatural horror underpinnings centered on a teenager trapped inside an invisible prison built to keep him from discovering the truth as a way to deliver her devastating coming-out tale to a mainstream audience.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Jane Schoenbrun’s unsettling identity-horror unfolds itself slowly before crescendoing into something undeniably powerful and affecting. A startling film that won’t soon leave you, even when the TV stops glowing.
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: By the film’s end, imagery merging humans and TVs, reminiscent of ‘Videodrome,’ reinforces the focus on pathological fandom in the face of pervasive media—but leaves a crack for Schoenbrun’s underlying metaphor to shine through.
- [New] | Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: With a transfixing visual style and layers of meaning, I Saw the TV Glow is a heartbreaking look at the cost of denying who you are.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Take-Up
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