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By Tom Santilli (137) for AXS.com (137) on 13 Aug 2018

Tucci and company make the film compelling, and although we know where things are headed, the occasional detour here and there makes for an…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 12 Jul 2018

There should be more outrage, more compassion, more something - yet the film can't capitalize on its hot-button premise…

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By Spencer Coile (4) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 04 Apr 2018

Submission lacks the insight and perspective to become a movie that represents now…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 20 Mar 2018

A fresh and valiant attempt to breathe some fresh air into the #MeToo movement, Submission is stimulating and intelligently rendered until…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 19 Mar 2018

viewers will most likely overlook the strong performances by stars Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin and instead focus on the wasted opportunity…

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By Mark Jackson (231) for Epoch Times (337) on 16 Mar 2018

Submission might make itself useful as a mandatory instructional video for male professors; a Scared Straight for campus PhD's thinking about…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 14 Mar 2018

In the moment of #MeToo and #TimesUp, this tale of the relationship between an older male professor and his young female student is howlingly…

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By Jonathan W. Hickman (551) for Daily Film Fix (355) on 11 Mar 2018

Frustrating but sincere and well acted, especially by Tucci, who embodies a middle-aged man in transition, Submission explores well the risk…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 09 Mar 2018

Throughout, this charge, Angela's lie, and Ted's complicitness are treated as little more than a student contesting her grades…

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By Robert Horton (590) for Seattle Weekly (293) on 09 Mar 2018

Acting is a precise craft but also a mysterious alchemy, and when you've gotten as good as Tucci has, a seamless performance like this can…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 09 Mar 2018

Tucci and Timlin are both quite good in their roles, and writer-director Richard Levine (adapting Francine Prose's 2000 novel Blue Angel) does…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 08 Mar 2018

It doesn't quite work, and that Submission fails the Bechdel Test hard probably goes without saying…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 08 Mar 2018

Submission ultimately succeeds only as an actor's showcase…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Mar 2018

Honoring the primacy of language for his characters, Levine deftly reveals the ways they wield it to seduce, attack, manipulate, repress and,…

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By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 07 Mar 2018

There's an archness to the film that keeps this from devolving into Lifetime melodrama, and a few twists that keep it erring on the side of…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 07 Mar 2018

The archly titled Submission is an equal-opportunity panorama of folly, a fictional quagmire to help keep our minds off the real one all around us…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Mar 2018

Submission is not a bad film — it just feels like an early draft…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Mar 2018

Bolstered by good supporting performances from Kyra Sedgwick, Janeane Garofalo and Ritchie Coster, Submission is a handsome-looking film that…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Indiewire (3,631) on 06 Mar 2018

Like a time-traveler who sets into motion the same fate they’re trying to undo, Submission is so desperate not to become a cliché that it…

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By Paul Parcellin (25) for Film Threat (5,156) on 02 Mar 2018

Submission is well acted, finely paced and craftily photographed, but provides no real revelations that will add to the discussion about campus…

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