I Saw the TV Glow

Name: I Saw the TV Glow
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: May 3, 2024
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Amber Benson, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Conner O'Malley, Danielle Deadwyler, Danny Tamberelli

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A24 | Release Date: May 3, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Amber Benson, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Conner O'Malley, Danielle Deadwyler, Danny Tamberelli, Emma Portner, Helena Howard, Justice Smith, Michael C. Maronna, Will Fitz

Summary: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Jourdain Searles

Jan 22, 2024

At times, the film feels like a musical nightmare full of sadness and raw angst. Read full review

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Bob Strauss

May 11, 2024

The suburban world Owen and Maddy feel so out of sync with, seen mostly at night, flickers with blue, magenta and sickly green light. It’s unnerving, yet mesmerizing, like a small-screen nightmare that won’t let your psyche go. Read full review

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The Independent Clarisse Loughrey

Jul 31, 2024

I Saw the TV Glow speaks so powerfully to the curse of denial that the words “there is still time”, scrubbed in chalk on a suburban street, can have an almost magical effect on the viewer. Read full review

Richard Roeper

May 8, 2024

Such an original and disturbing and haunting and creatively outrageous piece of work that it refuses to drift from your conscience. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

May 15, 2024

Schoenbrun’s direction is masterful, both in terms of what they get out of the actors (Smith and Lundy-Paine give committed performances) and in their visual language. The look of the film is both haunting and inviting — not unlike that of a nightmare, or a horror film. “I Saw the TV Glow” has elements of both, and more. Read full review

Collider Ross Bonaime

Jan 19, 2024

I Saw the TV Glow is bold, unhinged, extremely unusual, and also kind of magnificent—a daring step forward for Schoenbrun as a filmmaker, and a film that will certainly divide audiences not sure what the hell to make of it. Read full review

Marshall Shaffer

Feb 19, 2024

The film is a mesmeric but frequently muddled exploration of transgender self-actualization. Read full review

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