• Authority Magazine

    "Not all social activism has to look like marching in the streets. Often it looks like examining your own biases and resolving to change your own behavior."

  • Indie Activity

    "The story was unfortunately inspired by an onslaught of real-world events, and making this film has been our way of fighting back against these home-grown terrorist attacks by exposing their roots."

  • Film Threat

    "With High Score, Itzkow and Ryen give us a Lyft-era Travis Bickle: a lonely, isolated man who sees others only as the reasons for his failures and simmering over all who don’t conform to his narrow worldview. As the lead, Itzkow ably embodies the young loner who views a world as sliding into chaos, while we clearly see it is all of his own creation."

  • Film & TV Now

    "One of the most talked-about shorts of the year is Serena Ryen and Ethan Itzkow’s HIGH SCORE, the genuinely discomforting tale of a sad and lonely man whose rage manifests itself against the world."

  • Horror News

    "HIGH SCORE raises the genre bar with its adept storytelling and finger on the pulse of transformative filmmaking."

  • Thrive Global

    "Many people see an opportunity to cut someone down as an opportunity to lift themselves up, but that’s just a race to the bottom. If I look out for you, and you look out for me, we all win."