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2016
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Indignation
Positive Reviews
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Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.7
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3.5
But handing the movie over to the protagonist does have its benefits.Notably, it allows Lerman to deliver an exciting, detailed performance.
Av Club
4.5
Indignation doesnt break any fresh ground, and at times plays more like a series of engaging moments than a cohesive whole, but its craftsmanship is i ..
Indie Wire
4.5
Like all indies, Indignation will need the firm support of arthouse audiences if its to find the larger platform it deserves.
We Got This Covered
3.0
The film is indeed a cautionary tale, but one that follows its own admonishments too closely.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Its a mildly interesting coming of age tale and reflection of mid twentieth century America, but nothing more.
Time Out
4.0
Anchored by an exquisitely crafted script and fine tuned aesthetics, Indignation offers a compelling twist on the coming of age genre with intelligenc ..
Collider
4.5
While the preciousness of the film left me a bit cold, theres no denying that Indignation is exquisitely crafted.
Collider
4.5
Marcus the virgin is gobsmacked.Schamuss style is deliberate but not cold, and the performances he has elicited are passionately deliberate.
Vulture
3.3
Its a measure of Schamus intelligence in bringing the book to the screen that enough of Roths broader vision survives, though youll have to dig for it ..
Paste Magazine
5.0
Adapted from a novel by Philip Roth (his 2008 book of the same name and his penultimate novel if we are to believe that he is now finally done with wr ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Herein lies the nub of the scene, and the moment when the films title emotion chafes its way tellingly to the surface.
Telegraph
3.0
Indignation attempts to tackle too many subjects that it cant find a balance for.
The Young Folks
3.8
Its a showcase of acting acrobatics at its most flexible and versatile.
The Young Folks
1.5
He struggles to adjust to the new Midwestern culture and doesnt take to the schools expectations.
The Young Folks
2.5
In other parts, Schamus captures the satirical tone much more successfully.
The Globe And Mail
5.0
It is 1951, a time when the American war against Communism meant drafting its young men and sending them to fight in Korea.
Spirituality And Practice
4.2
Authors often complain about films made from their books, but in this case one cannot imagine Roth doing so.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
It all feels dated and entirely too pat to be much of a challenge.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
Schamus richly captures the angst of his Jewish protagonist, who is the alter ego of the author as a college student on a campus of mostly gentiles .. ..
Sover
4.2
Recent years have delivered The Human Stain and Elegy, but its Indignation that truly balances the nuances of literature with the intimacy of film.
Blu Ray
4.0
This drama about a bright young Jewish boy from Newark attending a small, midwestern liberal arts college in the 1950s was adapted from a novel by Phi ..
Chicago Reader
3.0
Tweet Indignation Daniel Barnes By This article was published on 08.18.16 Advertisement Best known for writing or co writing nine of Ang Lees films, J ..
News Review
3.0
The result is an unassuming, low key film that tells it story with an elegant and steady hand.
Radio Times
4.0
Indignation is a coming of age tale with a very elegiac feel, a film about youth made from the perspective of someone clearly very old.
Independent
4.4
Its riveting cinema.Lerman and Letts give performances that will knock the wind out of you.
Rolling Stone
4.4
PLOT In 1951, a young Jewish man enters his first year of college.CAST Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts RATED R (sexuality and language) LENGTH ..
News Day
3.5
I realize that this effect is largely intentional, but that doesnt altogether excuse it.
Cs Monitor
2.5
Whats missing is a soul, emotional moments, even heart and compelling conflict to pull us into this cold body.
Film Journal
4.0
The second adaptation of a Philip Roth novel in as many weeks, following Ewan McGregors American Pastoral, this represents a rather more assured take ..
The Guardian
2.0
Yet the pace plods, and this heavily furnished, inadequately ventilated movie never entirely comes to life.
The Guardian
3.0
Unfortunately, on the whole, Schamus debut feels too self serious to fully engage.
The Guardian
4.0
Questioning about this leads to bigger queries and conflicts, with Marcus quoting Bertrand Russells Why I Am Not a Christian and the dean boring in on ..
Az Central
2.0
But the movie is a touch stately and methodical, and it doesnt get out of the house much.
Npr
3.8
There are no cliches of anti Semitic hazing and name calling, but clashing moral values.
Star Tribune
4.0
Its largely thanks to them and Rowlings beautifully structured screenplay that Fantastic Beasts is so much more than a film about silly sounding, comp ..
Daily Mail
4.0
The man widely regarded as Americas greatest living novelist has seen plenty of his books adapted for the big screen, but hardly any have properly cap ..
Daily Mail
4.2
Marcus is a Jewish college student in 1951 who avoids the Korean War draft (and his meddlesome parents in Newark) by enrolling in a tony Midwestern Ca ..
Ew
4.0
The refinement of Schamuss storytelling is up to the task of evoking the novels honest, yet complex notions, making this the best Roth adaptation in d ..
Flim List
4.4
He meticulously recreates the world of the story to allow the intellectual fury, fractured neurosis and sexual fumbling of its two protagonists to rea ..
Observer
4.0
Based on Philip Roths 2008 novel, this fine period drama feels both simple and intimate while at the same time effectively covering complex moral, spi ..
Common Sense Media
5.0
This sounds like the premise for a heartwarming coming of age story, but the energy here is more sober.
Sf Gate
4.4
Schamuss debut feature is impressive for how its tamped down style and the coming of age narrative work so confidently in tandem, with the filmmakings ..
Slant Magazine
3.1
Thoughtful and reserved, perhaps even to a fault, Indignation winds up packing a wallop far greater than its modest parts might suggest.
Washington Post
5.0
At the same time, you can feel the tension behind his thought process.
The New York Times
3.8
As punctuated by a dark, transcendent ending, Schamus captures many wistful echoes of an era long past.
The Film Stage
4.4
The movie respects Roths coming of age reverie while ever so gently questioning it, or at least tilting it sideways.
Chicago Tribune
2.5
Despite the materials fit, the storys relentlessly downbeat tone is challenging.
Boston Globe
3.0
Roadside Attractions Indignation is a lush tale of a supposedly momentous BJ, a beautiful, tastefully shot, subtly acted adaptation of Philip Roths th ..
Uproxx
4.0
This is a terrific filmed play but no one would describe it as cinematic.
The Irish Times
2.8
That anti drama is part of the point: the tragedy of this tiny story is that it is so tiny, so inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
Blogs Indie Wire
4.5
But the terrific Lerman, who appears in pretty much every scene and holds your gaze throughout, is the films quiet revelation.He gives a performance o ..
Hollywood Reporter
3.0
Listening to Dean Caudwell is like sipping poisoned Ovaltine you feel cosy even as your guts heave.Indignation isnt as good as the Philip Roth novel i ..
Standard
2.0
Marcus is heading off to college at an especially fraught time, the middle of the Korean War, and Indignation in fact opens with the funeral of one of ..
Los Angeles Times
2.8
Sarah Gadon plays Olivia Hutton and Logan Lerman plays Marcus Messner in Indignation..(Photo: Summit Entertainment / TNS) A college freshman confronts ..
Detroit News
4.5
Its a shame that the films romantic scenes dont carry quite the same impact.
Variety
4.0
Picture: Alison Cohen Rosa/Roadside Attractions via AP The polished vehicle spiriting Lerman to the next level is an absorbing, emotionally astute ada ..
Herald Sun
4.4
And while the movie does flounder in the aftermath of that big first act set piece, Star Trek Beyond eventually recovers and settles to become a fairl ..
Reel Film
4.4
Some of whats cut is missed theres less of Marcus father, and of Marcus gay roommate but on the other hand, nothing here feels unnecessary.
Nj
3.0
Its its what laid the foundations for the wonderful, Oscar nominated Brooklyn last year, lending itself to traditional coming of age tales, as a notio ..
Hey U Guys
2.5
Earned tears and unexpected laughter combine for more satisfying impact.
The Star
2.0
Here, he seems so determined to respect Roths 2008 novel that he fails to crack its surface, relaying the plot without ever engaging with the books em ..
Now Toronto
5.0
The result is an engrossing coming of age film with a dark underbelly, propelled by logical argument and emotional turmoil.
Urban Cine File
3.5
Doubts over sex, fuelled by a mix of pleasure and guilt, are a recurring element in the novels of Philip Roth.
The Age
1.5
Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasnt a misogynist and didnt hate women because he spent all his time thinking about fucking them..But ..
La Weekly
4.0
THE VERDICT: Doesnt quite enchant like the best Potter movies but there are enough thrills and genuine chills to satisfy.
Games Radar
3.8
He doesnt have that modern aura some actors bring to period pieces to make them less convincing.
Tamp A Bay
4.4
Its a stretch to portray 1951 as harshly puritanical, and to its discredit the book and the film dont touch upon a follow up question: What happens wh ..
New York Post
3.0
And the effort the actors place on enunciation and dynamics often leaves the dialogue feeling like its being parroted rather than understood and expre ..
Lw Lies
3.5
Indignation is a film in a minor key, one that engages the intellect but not, quite, the emotions.Still, Schamus plays it beautifully.
Cleve Land
4.0
No Stooges, no Ramones, no American punk rock and possibly no punk at all.
Independent Ie
3.5
Its one of those star making performances one hears about at festivals like Sundance, but its not flashy or indie cool.
Vanity Fair
3.5
If the story is about any one thing, its about how, in the words of its young hero, the tiniest, littlest things have tragic consequences.
Wsj
4.4
1 of 2 View Caption In this image released by Roadside Attractions, Logan Lerman appears in a scene from, Indignation.
Sltrib
5.0
This is one helluva compelling film that presents us with several of the very best performances of the year.
Chicago Sun Times
4.0
His strict commitment to the novels gradual pacing works wonders, and the performance shine as a result.
Punch Drunk Critics
4.5
This single event determines the rest of the dark, sparely told tale, utterly allergic to honeyed nostalgia.
Straight
4.0
(Its not that Winesburg College is Evil; its just that its so thoroughly Other.)
Sandiego Reader
3.8
Indignation may not be considered greatly cinematic given the closed nature of the subject.
Shockya
3.0
REVIEW / DRAMA INDIGNATION (NC16) 111 minutes/Opens tomorrow/3 stars The story: Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), the son of an over protective Jewish bu ..
Straits Times
4.0
One of Philip Roths lesser known novels becomes the best movie adaptation to date with a fine Logan Lerman and two Oscar worthy supporting turns from ..
Dead Line
3.0
Its not the one that gets it that transports the writers specific tone and charm (and, sometimes, epic lack of charm) into cinema.
Metro New York
2.0
Its a great looking movie, but its a museum piece, seeming too often to be posed rather than captured.
Flavor Wire
4.0
Cue a series of funny and touching set pieces that hardly feel particularly new, but are largely winning thanks to the strong cast.
The Skinny
4.0
Its merely to point out that the way it gleefully embraces the violent, racist and misogynistic impulses of its ageing white male protagonists in post ..
Scots Man
4.2
Indignation captures this subliminal, almost unknowable quality with more assurance than any Roth adaptation Ive seen.
Guide Live
4.0
Their sparring in Caudwells wood paneled cage is one of the years most unnerving screen sequences, scarier by far than any horror film.
East Bay Express
2.0
Each film is softer than Roths literary sensibility and style.There is a harshness and bluntness sometimes a nasty quality to Roths sense of reality.
Tony Mack
2.5
Indignation shouldnt be taken as a first attempt at directing for Schamus, as much as it should be seen as an attempt at a playful statement poking fu ..
National Post
3.0
But for all Schamus adaptive gifts, Roths deep and often introspective prose is not a natural fit for screen.The film is inescapably stagey.
Sky
4.5
Although the narrative momentum sometimes falters, there is a constant thrum of dread.
Winnipeg Free Press
3.8
Though it could use more dramatic juice, Indignation succeeds as absorbing, intelligent, grown up cinema.Screenwriter James Schamus makes an impressiv ..
Sf Examiner
4.5
Indignation is a film that hides its drama under a controlled visual style and measured rhythm that proves to be far more evocative than it appears on ..
Stream On Demand At Home
4.5
It is also tremendously well served by a terrific cast.Letts is wonderful, of course, while Lerman exactly portrays a boy who is brilliant yet naive, ..
Spectator
1.5
New period drama misses target, lacks resonance Whats a nice Jewish boy doing in a movie like this
Metro Active
3.8
This period piece has a slow, thoughtful pace more attuned to turning pages than enduring the rapid fire onslaught of most current movies.
Heral
3.5
Indignation offers a meditative immersion more than a nimble reminder of the struggles to find and define ourselves in terms of religion, sexism and e ..
Kdhx
1.9
Indignation culminates in what should be an emotional punch to the stomach, yet never earns our cares enough to work as it should.
The Film File
3.8
The sun dappled light is dusty and lovely; the settings and costumes a nostalgic mix of dark wood, autumn and tweeds.
Seattle Times
4.5
Photo: Alison Cohen Rosa How many times have we seen the coming of age story of a young man, a quiet outsider, set in the academic world.It is certain ..
City Beat
3.8
Indignation is a very literate and compelling drama. Its major flaw is that writer director James Shamus tries to cover too much ground.
Reel Bob
3.0
Its the emotional side of the story that feels a little limp and sometimes just flat out silly.
Ex Press
5.0
Though filled with insight about isolation and artifice, this kind of subtle drama is difficult to convey on film.
Hot Press
1.5
The surprising ending recasts the story in a different, darker light than you may otherwise have seen it.
Daily Public
2.0
Writing this subtle demands strong performances, and they are plentiful here.
Four Three Film
3.1
But theres nothing transcendent in this familiar story, not enough of a spark that would make it worth the long slog it takes to get where its going.
Good Times
3.8
I admired it quite a bit, but wouldve liked it more if it had done a better job of engaging my emotions.
Baltimore Magazine
3.0
Indeed, not that filmmaking rears its head as a career option for Marcus, but the movie resembles something purposeful and poised thats easy to imagin ..
Arts Hub
4.5
This is not to say this film is perfect it is too dour to qualify as perfection but every frame speaks of an unflagging, ultimately winning dedication ..
Signature Reads
5.0
This is what Sundance magic is all about.I had not planned on seeing Indignation, but I ran into a publicist for it at another film.
Nerd Report
5.0
Its possible: The movie version of Roths novel American Pastoral will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next week.In any case, Indignation is the ..
J Post
4.4
Alluring and sexually willing, the vulnerable yet outwardly confident Olivia is every heterosexual mans fantasy.
Buffalo
3.0
And Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson films, Fury) rises to the challenging, deeply textured role.
Susan Granger
3.8
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