I Saw the TV Glow
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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.
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- Justice Smith
- Amber Benson
- Brigette Lundy-Paine
- Emma Portner
- Danielle Deadwyler
- Conner O'Malley
- Danny Tamberelli
- Michael C. Maronna
- Helena Howard
- Ian Foreman
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- Apr 22, 2024
my name is Julie. i am a trans woman. and tonight is the first time i’ve said those words to anyone other than myself. i first started questioning my gender identity around my sophomore year of high school. it had never crossed my mind when i was younger; i thought i was…
julieApr 25, 2024horror movie about how if u don’t transition ur lips will eventually become soooo chapped
Jamie Lauren KeilesJan 19, 2024Donnie Darko for they/thems
ghostreel - Apr 19, 2024
“time wasn’t right. it was moving too fast. i was 19, and then i was 20, and then i was 21. like chapters skipped over in a dvd. i told myself ‘this isn’t normal. this isn’t normal. this isn’t how life is supposed to feel.’” was stunned speechless for a few seconds after…
zoë rose bryantMay 19, 2024A heartbreaking rejection of the typical ideas of a coming of age movie. Owen will not enter the wardrobe, he will not follow the white rabbit, he will not go to the Pink Opaque. He will collapse inside himself and decay. Fantastic. My favorite movie of the year now.
PaulApr 30, 2024The horror of a high school acquaintance suddenly re-entering your life with a nonbinary haircut
Liz - Jan 24, 2024
This is what my mom thought would happen to me if I watched SpongeBob
Ronnie DinnelMay 14, 2024so good and amazing but i laughed when the flashback scenes ended and it said “two years later” and the black child actor suddenly turned biracial
clementineMay 11, 2024Buried alive and suffocating to death, I am running out of time. What if I was someone else? I think I was born bored I think I was born blue I think I was born wanting more I think I was born already missing you
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- Brutalist likedI Saw the TV Glow
I see so many bad reviews and comments on this. If you like to be fed all the info, this is not your movie, if you think peak cinema is something similar to fast and furious, this is not your movie. You interpret the movie yourself and that’s the beauty, for me it meant time.
Clay Werner lovedI Saw the TV Glow9.9 - Every so often a movie comes along that speaks to me on a different level, almost feeling as if it changes me as a person. This might be (IS) one of those movies. The themes of isolation, identity, anxiety are all so strong. Nostalgic, existential, horrifying, & beautiful.
ana dislikedI Saw the TV GlowSlow, boring, and confusing. Cast was good, story deff has potential but it was just bad. 2/10
- sky.fully lovedI Saw the TV Glow
if you say this movie is bad, do have never struggled mentally or you do not know a trans person. i watch so many disturbing and uncomfortable films but this took the cake. beyond how beautiful it is, this movie doesn’t tell A story, it can tell YOUR story. 10/10
AMock likedI Saw the TV Glow7/10 I haven’t stopped thinking about this movie since I watched it. The visuals of “The Pink Opaque” from when Owen was a teenager were straight nightmare fuel. The cinematography and sound was fantastic, although the ending left me with more questions than answers
Dyl lovedI Saw the TV GlowYeah I loved every bit but I’m switchingt to Letterboxd and only doing this to keep my streak, so 9.4/10
- nic dislikedI Saw the TV Glow
Unfortunately I was too stupid for this movie 😩
brooke likedI Saw the TV Glowi may actually be mr. melancholy
toro is "meh" onI Saw the TV Glowa very weird, trippy, & uncomfortable film. although the dark aesthetic was very satisfying to watch. the cinematography is very unique, but it is disturbing at times. not the best A24 film at all, i couldn’t follow the storyline. the nostalgic feeling makes up for it tho. 6 / 10
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- AAAda Alozie
The ending was horrible. Steep decline after the first part of the film
EMEzequiel MurilloI love not fully knowing what I'm going into. This movie, while not the letter to me, I saw who it was for and it was dissociating beauty. So many questions and little messages that make me want to see it again under a new lense. A24 films often I find best not trying to…
TTThomas ThomasHorrible movie. Wouldn’t watch it again if you paid me. The entire movie felt like a Bollywood movie. It was sloooowwwww and it just randomly ended
- VHVivian Hu
Almost threw up after watching this, so boring
PRPatricia RamirezIt's truly a masterpiece, if you like A24 movies then you'll love this one 😊
DMDecorian Mukes - CDCarl DungcaDODemetrio OrnelasTWTabitha Wilson
Metacritic
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.
Clarisse Loughrey
The Independent
May 16, 2024
It is at once a singular piece of pop-cult art, delivered with the brash confidence of a filmmaker who has either been told “no” too many times or not enough, and a film that could not exist without the contributions of Cronenberg and a dozen of his contemporaries and acolytes (including Donnie Darko’s Richard Kelly), their midnight visions co-opted by Schoenbrun into one slickly nostalgic neon-lit nightmare.
Barry Hertz
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
May 2, 2024
Congratulations, Gen-Z, you’ve just been handed your new midnight-movie obsession.
David Fear
Rolling Stone
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