I Saw the Light's reviews
Media reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Even when I Saw the Light is giving us standard-issue concert scenes or simple interior sequences such as young Hank and his band playing live on the radio, the saturated colors and the subtle camera moves make every scene pop.
Empire
Hiddleston and Olsen impress, and the music remains golden, but this is just another by-the-numbers biopic.
Time Out
The result is a film carried almost entirely by its lead actors, who lend a spark that the drab script and trudging direction can?t provide. Maybe they should just go on tour.
The Hollywood Reporter
It?s unfortunate that Light feels both too traditional and too concerned with showcasing life behind the music, instead of trying to explain why Williams was one of the greatest American musicians of the last century.
Cinemanía
Marc Abraham wants to cover everything that happened to Williams in his last years of life, but forgetting to tell it everything.
Fotogramas
It failures harmful habit with many biopics want to cover in two hours (...) The only and interest in the film are the performances of the two main characters, Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen.
Variety
Despite a thoroughly committed, impressive performance from Tom Hiddleston as Williams (and an even better one from Elizabeth Olsen as his first wife, Audrey), the film tackles the life of one of the 20th century?s most seminal musicians with all the passion of a stenographer, making for a dull, unfocused slog through what should have been an effortlessly cinematic story.
New York Times
Part of what defeats Mr. Abraham and may help explain why Mr. Hiddleston?s performance, however appealing, never gets below the surface, is that Williams is one of those artists whose eloquence is expressed through his work.
The Washington Post
I Saw the Light isn?t just incohesive, but ultimately ? and far more frustratingly ? incoherent.
El Mundo
The film progresses as if fill gaps in a form, no soul and no real content.