Frances Koncan Winnipeg Free Press Jun 12, 2020 4/5

If you love ghost stories and - perhaps owing to the traumatic life experience of growing up Catholic - especially love ghost stories that have vague religious connotations, you will really love Light from Light...

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Lynnette Nicholas Common Sense Media Jan 16, 2020 4/5

Beautiful drama about loss gently touches on supernatural.

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Carol Cling AWFJ.org Dec 28, 2019

Haunted - and haunting.

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Cory Woodroof Nashville Scene Dec 19, 2019

Light From Light finds and dissects the pangs that plague the lonely and the lost, for whom it offers a prayer of restoration.

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Jeffrey Overstreet JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) Dec 10, 2019 B+

Very little else in my year at the movies has stayed so vividly on my mind as Light from Light. It's haunting me.

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Bobby LePire Film Threat Dec 3, 2019 9/10

If Ireland and Gaffigan aren't up for awards come the year's end, it will be a crime.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Nov 26, 2019 2.5/4

...a quiet, intimate ghost story, in which there may not, in fact, be a ghost.

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Justin Chang Los Angeles Times Nov 8, 2019

[Light From Light] knows that the most resonant movie isn't a creed, but a question.

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Pat Padua Spectrum Culture Nov 7, 2019 4/5

It's as if Harrill took the very concept of horror and stripped that fear down to its essence: the dread and longing for meaning, for some sign of life after death.

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Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Nov 5, 2019 4.5/5

An unusual, almost meditative film that reverences the mysteries of death, grief, and loneliness.

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Rex Reed Observer Nov 4, 2019 2/4

Nothing ever happens of any importance in Light From Light and nothing makes any sense, including the title.

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Vikram Murthi AV Club Nov 3, 2019 B

Light From Light concerns ghost hunting, but Harrill characterizes the process in practical, mundane terms; it's the emotional implications of the endeavor that interest him.

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Matthew Dougherty The Filtered Lens Nov 3, 2019 B-

More of an All Saints' Day ghost story than a Halloween one, director Paul Harrill's Light From Light is as low key and quaint as supernatural stories get.

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Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue Nov 2, 2019

Defiantly avoiding clichés about hauntings and the supernatural, this sharply observed character study lingers after the lights go up.

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Steven D. Greydanus National Catholic Register Nov 1, 2019 A

I'm tempted to call 'Light from Light' the first ghost story I've ever seen that I completely believe.

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Peter Sobczynski eFilmCritic.com Nov 1, 2019

An uncommonly compelling work that, like an actual spirit, will linger with you long after it ends.

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Monica Castillo RogerEbert.com Nov 1, 2019 3/4

For a movie about grief, it's surprisingly even-handed, not too melancholic, heavy or existential but mostly pensive.

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Rosalie Kicks MovieJawn Nov 1, 2019 3/4

Not your typical jump scare ghost story. Instead a quiet, slowly-paced character film that is worth a watch.

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Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies Nov 1, 2019 3/4

While it starts as a more literal kind of ghost tale, the film evolves its outlook as we start to learn about these characters...

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Kristen Yoonsoo Kim New York Times Oct 31, 2019

Sure, Sheila has some "ghosts," and her large eyes carry the weariness of her past, but don't worry about getting struck with that metaphor: Harrill is a far more skilled and subtle director than that.

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