There’s a strange, arch sensibility to it, with purposely flattened performances reflecting the characters’ desire to burst from their bodies and discover themselves and their identities and their truth...

Full Review | Jun 17, 2024

Even if it doesn’t entirely work for you on a narrative level, it’s hard to deny the visionary artistry, style, and daring creativity that Schoenbrun brings to their confident and compelling sophomore feature.  

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2024

Perhaps the scariest thing about this film is that these ordinary memories seem far less palpable than the ever-present glow of the TV screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2024

The ideas shared are far more interesting than the two leads and how they carry the story, but despite its slow pace and lack of any clear joy, it remains just as transfixing as the fictional Pink Opaque...

Full Review | Jun 13, 2024

When it ended, my first thought was, “this is why I love movies, they saved my life but they’re also an easy way to escape reality, and that in of itself can become addictive.” Jane has made their best work to date with a final act that gave me chills.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 10, 2024

With I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun continues to go from strength to strength as both a story-teller and a visual artist.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2024

Schoenbrun understands that, yes, we can be mesmerized, even zombified by these glowing images, but she’s not here to condemn television. She’s here to pay tribute.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2024

I Saw the TV Glow is an indie drama through and through, with slow pacing that may frustrate viewers who don't relate to its nostalgic setting and themes. Those who do, however, will be riveted -- and moved.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 6, 2024

“I Saw the TV Glow” is a heavy rumination on an element of being trans that ought to speak to plenty of cis folks, too: having the sense that something about your life is very wrong, but being trapped at the precipice of doing anything about it.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2024

It is the most confounding film... the narrative didn't drive me anywhere.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Jun 4, 2024

Disappointingly, I found this teen psychodrama tedious, overdetermined, self-serious, and twee.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2024

Schoenbrun's millennial 'Videodrome' interrogates not just the roles screens play in our lives but the roles we play while projecting ourselves onto them.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2024

With I Saw the TV Glow, Schoenbrun stakes their claim as the preeminent chronicler of those specific horrors inherent in coming of age as a millennial.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2024

Scary, immersive, and poignant, I Saw the TV Glow is a masterful affirming of Jane Schoenbrun's singular vision.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jun 1, 2024

Schoenbrun creates an eerie, emotional journey into the intersection of identity and popular culture.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | May 29, 2024

I SAW THE TV GLOW is deeply poignant and stirring as a trans meditation on the role art plays as both a tool for discovery, but also a prison that can leave one trapped.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | May 29, 2024

Strong characters ground the otherworldly atmospherics and unconventional chronology in this nostalgic examination of how we relate to the fiction of our youth. The film perfectly juggles a sense of both connection and utter detachment.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2024

It’s important to just flow with the film's curious currents, and not try too hard to connect it with the reality you know. Try to see everything through Owen’s eyes, and you may find it intriguing and rewarding in ways you never before considered.

Full Review | May 28, 2024

I mean no disrespect to the director or anyone who likes this movie, but this is one of the most boring films I've seen in a long time.

Full Review | May 26, 2024

Schoenbrun tries very hard for ‘TV Glow’ to be a singular vision, and the effort painstakingly shows. It lacks the craftsmanship that, say, a Cronenberg or Lynch would install into their films.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 25, 2024