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...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2020

Beautiful drama about loss gently touches on supernatural.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2020

Haunted - and haunting.

| Dec 28, 2019

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

| Dec 19, 2019

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

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 10, 2019

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

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 3, 2019

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2019

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

| Nov 8, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2019

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

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 5, 2019

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 4, 2019

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.

| Original Score: B | Nov 3, 2019

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.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 3, 2019

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

| Nov 2, 2019

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

| Original Score: A | Nov 1, 2019

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

| Nov 1, 2019

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2019

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2019

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 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.

| Oct 31, 2019