We're All Going to the World's Fair

Name: We're All Going to the World's Fair
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: April 15, 2022
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Anna Cobb, Michael Rogers

2022

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Utopia | Release Date: April 15, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Anna Cobb, Michael Rogers

Summary: 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. AfterLate 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 experiences to the shuffle of online clips available for the world to see. As she begins to lose herself between dream and reality, a mysterious figure reaches out, claiming to see something special in her uploads.… Expand

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Apr 21, 2022

Schoenbrun, a native speaker of the language of the internet, has uploaded into the cinematic landscape one of the most thoughtful depictions of self-discovery in the digital age. Through Casey’s plight of suburban isolation, the artist reaches out to us from a corner of the web’s endless abyss with an unmissable invitation, quite literally demonstrating the transcendental prowess of storytelling. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Apr 29, 2022

No matter where the film leaves us narratively, however, its evocation of estrangement—even, perhaps especially, as part of an Internet where we can talk to anyone at anytime—is both emotionally palpable and cinematically potent. Read full review

The Film Stage Matt Cipolla

Feb 3, 2021

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair isn’t an exposé on internet culture or social media. Nothing about it is shocking, nor is it meant to be. That’s why it feels so real when it reaches its natural conclusion. Read full review

Siddhant Adlakha

Apr 15, 2022

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a moody, slow-burn horror drama about loneliness online. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Apr 19, 2022

A standard setup for a horror film, but filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (who, among other projects, was ringleader/executive producer for the equally slippery SXSW 2016 feature collective:unconscious) 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. Read full review

Lena Wilson

Apr 26, 2022

It’s particularly sad that viewers can’t spend more time in Casey’s world, since newcomer Cobb is this film’s greatest asset. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 12, 2022

The lack of frights and jolts and general mesmerizing tone of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair make it “horror” only in terms of the mood. It feels more like a stab at social commentary and satire. Read full review

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Dunkaccino

Nov 13, 2022

The film itself is not only unlike anything I’ve seen in recent years, it also stayed in me (particularly the imagery) for days after I finished it.