Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- None
- eerie
- isolating
- haunting
- late night viewing
- arthouse horror night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film as narratively challenging and visually haunting, with an ambitious, unsettling approach to internet-age coming of age.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Casey documents the World's Fair Challenge and uploads her experiences as the audience encounters the story through internet-mediated images.
Casey records changes that may or may not be happening while losing certainty about who she is and what is real.
Casey's bedroom, online role-playing game, public uploads, and contact with JLB make digital connection the film's central social environment.
The attic bedroom, winter darkness, glow-in-the-dark stars, and black-light posters frame Casey's movement between private reality and online unreality.
Films like We're All Going to the World's Fair, and why
Host
shared found-footage experimentation, online identity, and unsettling coming-of-age themes
Cam
shared internet-mediated intimacy, loneliness, and ambiguous psychological horror
Eighth Grade
shared alienated adolescence, digital self-presentation, and visually haunting ambiguity
Skinamarink
shared liminal horror, isolation, and uncertainty between ordinary reality and nightmare
Movie Details
- Director
- Jane Schoenbrun
- Release Date
- 2022-04-15
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 (174)
Cast
- Anna Cobb
- Michael J. Rogers
- May Leitz
- Theo Anthony
- Valeria Santiago
- Turner Greaves
- Holly Anne Frink
- Slight Sounds
- Marc Santiago
- Karen Cavanaugh
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is We're All Going to the World's Fair about?
- A lonely teenager enters an online horror challenge and finds her private coming-of-age dissolving into an unnerving maze of performance, identity, and uncertain reality.
- What is We're All Going to the World's Fair like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of We're All Going to the World's Fair as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is We're All Going to the World's Fair violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in We're All Going to the World's Fair.
- What did critics think of We're All Going to the World's Fair?
- Critics broadly praised the film as narratively challenging and visually haunting, with an ambitious, unsettling approach to internet-age coming of age.
- Which films are like We're All Going to the World's Fair?
- Films with a similar feel include Host, Cam, Eighth Grade, and Skinamarink.
- How long is We're All Going to the World's Fair?
- We're All Going to the World's Fair runs 86 minutes.
- Where can I watch We're All Going to the World's Fair?
- In United States, We're All Going to the World's Fair streams on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel.
