Part-collage, part-90s-nostalgia-porn, Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow is a genreless, liminal trip about an increasingly media-addled world where the unconfronted anxieties and problems of the internal seem to be ignored like a high school clique, switched off like a TV channel, or dished out like “the monster of the week.” The film watches like how OMORI (the video game) plays— the player plays in one realm and the story responds in another. In I Saw the TV Glow,…
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Asteroid City 2023
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