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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 02 Aug 2016

Handles with exquisite patience and craftsmanship, locating all the Roth-ian ills of the world without sacrificing pure storytelling and a…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 02 Aug 2016

James Schamus' elegant, thoughtful adaptation of Philip Roth's novella is easily one of 2016's best films…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Aug 2016

Like the best wines and the best films, there’s a complexity to the finish, so that it reverberates with meanings beyond the obvious…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 28 Jul 2016

Indignation is one of the few adaptations of Roth's work to make it to the screen with its claws intact — Schamus reveals his gifts as a…

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By Bernard Boo (61) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 28 Jul 2016

Schamus' directorial debut is remarkable, capturing the male moodiness of Roth's work…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Jul 2016

For a movie featuring so much emotional discord, Indignation has an overly cautious tone: It could have been made in 1951…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 Jul 2016

Some of what's cut is missed - there's less of Marcus' father, and of Marcus' gay roommate - but on the other hand, nothing here feels unnecessary…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 28 Jul 2016

Schamus’ commitment to a style, and to the material, yields potent results…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 28 Jul 2016

Indignation doesn’t break any fresh ground, and at times plays more like a series of engaging moments than a cohesive whole, but its craftsmanship…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 27 Jul 2016

[Gadon and Lerman's] sizzle together is enough to sell Schamus' rather less interesting interpretation of Roth's novel as a low-boil romantic tragedy…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 27 Jul 2016

Indignation might be dismissed as a small, exquisite period piece, but it is so precisely rendered that it gets deeply under your skin…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 27 Jul 2016

Though Schamus is a seasoned, respectful adapter of Roth's prose, it's just plain hard, if not impossible, to do full justice to the novelist's…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 27 Jul 2016

One of Philip Roth's lesser known novels becomes the best movie adaptation to date with a fine Logan Lerman and two Oscar worthy supporting…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for New York Observer (1,400) on 27 Jul 2016

In the process, Schamus creates not only a meaningful and moving snapshot of an America on the cusp of redefining itself, but also a cinematic…

Review of Indignation (2016)

By Esther Zuckerman (46) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Jul 2016

This is a bleak film, one whose undercurrent of morbidity stems any romanticization of the past…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 27 Jul 2016

It's not the Roth movie that gets it - that transports his specific tone and charm (and, sometimes, epic lack of charm) into cinema…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 27 Jul 2016

Schamus is the former head of Focus Features, and seeing how he directs (this is his debut, though he has been Ang Lee’s collaborator for…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 27 Jul 2016

Indignation tells a very particular story, one that’s bittersweet, heartbreaking and bleakly comic all at once, and it gets it right…

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By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Jul 2016

The dean was more of a cartoon in Roth’s book, but Letts lends him a slippery wit that, much like the movie, is surprisingly potent…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 27 Jul 2016

Indignation is very much the sort of venture Mr…

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