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We're All Going to the World's Fair

2021

Jane Schoenbrun

Anna Cobb, Michael Rogers

5.2

494

Mystery. Drama. Horror Late on a cold night somewhere in the U.S., teenage Casey sits alone in her attic bedroom, scrolling the internet under the glow-in-the-dark stars and black-light posters that blanket the ceiling. She has finally decided to take the World’s Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, and embrace the uncertainty it promises. After the initiation, she documents the changes that may or may not be happening to her, adding her ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Jane Schoenbrun's exploration of internet culture through a chilling coming-of-age story is an auspicious, wildly smart narrative feature debut."
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Tender and rattling (...) an exploration of the world (and parallel worlds) of online role-playing game culture that is equally alive to its manifold dangers and possibilities for self-realization."
		Jourdain Searles The Hollywood Reporter	"A tender and intimate teenage journey (...) We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a warm hand for those still trying to figure themselves out"
		Matt Cipolla The Film Stage	"Captures the uncomfortable loneliness of being online (...) it veers sharply between intimate and impersonal"
		Andy Crump Paste Magazine	"A constitutionally melancholic coming-of-age film tailor-made for the creepypasta era (...) But more than being just frightening, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is confidently weird and deeply sad"
		Josiah Hughes Exclaim!	"A chilling drama that pulls double duty, representing both the sinister corners of esoteric internet communities and the external human isolation that feeds the beast online."
		Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"With a stunning debut performance from Anna Cobb (...) the result is a moody, meditative film about loneliness in the digital age."
		Lena Wilson The Wrap	"Once you know the creepypasta M.O., [it] gets a lot less confusing. There are no explanations here for n00bs -those unfamiliar with the real-world subculture on which it is based might feel lost"
		Mark Hanson Slant	"This is a film that memorably gets under the skin (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's very unnerving and a little bit exhausting (...) What an uncanny, exhilarating experience (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Carlos Aguilar Los Angeles Times	"One of the most thoughtful depictions of self-discovery in the digital age. The artist reaches out to us from a corner of the web's endless abyss, demonstrating the transcendental prowess of storytelling"
		Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"While [it] manages to generate only a vague sense of disquiet on the whole, Cobb's performance holds our gaze and attention, [it] elevates a film that often rings to be less than the sum of its parts (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Ross Bonaime Collider	"Schoenbrun's impressive debut latches onto that idea of online communities, coming-of-age, and finding one's own people through a genuinely uncomfortable and unique horror story unlike any other"
		Josh Kupecki Austin Chronicle	"Jane Schoenbrun has not made a horror film, but a fractured portrait of teenage malaise, of deceptions (both of self and others), and of the awkward probing of a cocoon's inner shell (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Joshua Rivera Polygon	"[It] isn't just a movie about connecting, it's about becoming. It's a powerful acknowledgement of how confounding and frightening young adulthood can be. But it's also a film about hope"
		Ben Pearson SlashFilm	"Is this a horror movie? A mystery? A thriller? There are elements of all of those things here, but the movie defies easy categorization, and its low-fi vibe and metaphor-heavy approach will not be everyone's cup of tea"
		Alexander Harrison Screen Rant	"[It] is as likely to be chilling as touching, which is quite a unique achievement (...) If there's one thing anyone who sees [the film] is sure to come away feeling, it's impressed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Christian Gallichio The Playlist	"By transitioning from horror to thriller to character study, the film effectively and disturbingly flips the script on something that could've been much more standardized"

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