Rotten
Despite its pluses, "Indignation" often plays like a heavy handed after-school special. It's not so much indignant as it is tedious.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
Indignation
Based on the novel by Philip Roth.
2016 · 1h 50m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
James Schamus
Overview
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"Indignation" is an elegant debut for longtime producer Schamus; a visit to the past, with both sunshine and darkness.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
With its mature perspective on distant formative years, the film feels true to the spirit of Roth; little from the deep wellsprings of the great novelist's fiction is lost in translation.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Writer and director James Schamus turns Indignation into a minor period piece, a precise but seemingly pointless evocation of the stultifying conventionalism of an American university campus in the 1950s.
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
Rotten
Schamus gets the suffocating look of 1951 American academia just right, with its sweaters and skirts, and with a rose motif worthy of Citizen Kane. What's missing is any real drama or purpose.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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