With some excellent cinematography from Dante Spinotti and a crowd-pleasing soundtrack, I Saw the Light should have an appeal that goes beyond the devoted Williams and Hiddleston fan bases.

| Sep 29, 2021

Strong performances aren't enough to make this more than a dreary flop that's only interested in playing one side of the record.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2021

These are the sorts of important dramas and conflicts that a more serious work on Hank Williams' life and times might have raised. As it is, I Saw the Light is a pleasant film that does not go terribly deep.

| Feb 11, 2021

Hiddleston is brilliant as the tortured country-western music legend. The script, on the other hand, is an episodic mess that is torture for the audience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2020

Hiddleston's singing and playing is to be admired, but there is a dull two hour film wrapped around it. Even the inevitable tragic ending left me cold, and it doesn't take much to get me crying at films. What a shame.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 1, 2020

[Tom] Hiddleston mesmerizes. . .Elizabeth Olsen astonishes!

| Nov 5, 2019

Tom Hiddleston's excellent performance as Hank Williams deserved a better film but the performance alone is not enough to save I Saw The Light.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2019

I Saw the Light has a fascinating subject...but still ends up rather a plonky misfire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Though there are "steel guitars and weeping fiddles" a-plenty, as a final comment sums up, and despite the good performances throughout, the film still feels like a missed opportunity to get to the heart of its intriguing subject.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2019

I Saw the Light is unstructured and slogs its way through the troubled rise and fall of arguably one of country music's most legendary figures.

| Feb 5, 2019

Hiddleston's performance desperately tries to keep "I Saw the Light" afloat, but it can't overcome some serious problems in the film's screenplay and direction.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 15, 2019

We see enough to make us wish we could see much more with greater clarity.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 1, 2018

With no emotional attachment to the characters and a plot that struggles to stay interesting, "I Saw the Light" is often dull and a hard sell.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2018

For all of the great performances, Abraham chooses to focus on the fussin' and fightin' between Hank and Audrey like a walking talking country song instead of the grit and determination that got Williams to the Grand Ole Opry.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2018

I Saw the Light may not be the most exciting biopic to hit the screens as of late, but Hiddleston truly nails the troubled singer.

| Aug 24, 2018

If you can get over the idea of England's Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager) playing country and western legend Hank Williams, then Marc Abraham's picture is a perfectly respectable glimpse of the troubled singer's life and times.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It's just like its subject on New Year's Day 1953: The film I Saw the Light is dead on arrival.

| Jan 2, 2018

Feeling like a rough assembly of the deleted scenes of the film we should be watching, it's mind-numbingly flat and passionless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2017

At more than two hours, it's way too long, the pointlessly wobbly camerawork is annoying, and Abraham's distinctly theatrical screenplay often feels as forced and mannered as the acting is, at times, overblown.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2017

The pace is leaden, and the story sends you out feeling as if you know little more about Williams than you did when you entered.

| Oct 16, 2017