Disconnect Reviews

Despite some fairly decent performances, Disconnect is a film that feels both old fashioned and like old news, revealing nothing that hasn't already been suggested by some half-assed op-ed half a decade ago.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Come on, guys: There's nothing cinematic about Googling.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Fails not so much because of its occasional self-seriousness or didacticism than it does from a scattered plot that makes the story's overriding theme or message difficult to grasp.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Andrew Stern's overworked but oddly nonspecific script needs to be a lot savvier about contempo media culture to bear the didactic weight of its themes.

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This dour would-be art movie posits that social media might be alienating people from each other rather than bringing them together. (Spoiler alert: the title is a metaphor.)

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There are no revelations or surprises, just newspaper editorial-style lamentations disguised as cautionary tales. I'd rather watch racism push Sandra Bullock down the stairs in Crash.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

By constantly weaving these tales together, Rubin takes humanity out of the equation, almost as if all these human intersections were engineered by technology, not an increasingly interrelated world.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This movie doesn't need a reviewer, it needs a family mediator.

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Not as bad as 'Crash,' but it sure as heck ain't good

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/10

It thinks it's smarter than it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Rubin overcooks his vulnerability, rendering the viewing experience frustratingly short-sheeted in the significance department, making online angst a perfect fit for a Lifetime Movie night.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Soulful though the film is, melodrama gradually sneaks in, and then it takes over.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

As is often the case with multiple, crossing story lines, results are uneven, the film's theme organic to one, cliched in another, forced in a third. Call this one 'Cyber-Crash.'

Full Review | Original Score: C-

There's a movie to be made, perhaps, about the way that electronic devices have created distance between us. But it'd be better if not every story revolved around a crime.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Journalists lie, spouses stray and thieves steal, but "Disconnect" keeps trying, unsuccessfully, to pin the blame on technology rather than its users.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

All the hand-wringing tech paranoia is merely an excuse for a microversion of Babel-like melodrama, one in which the loosely interwoven stories, regrettably, never add up to the sum of their parts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Ironically, by linking things up so snugly it damages its ability to connect with us.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The director of the acclaimed 2005 documentary 'Murderball' takes on a 'Crash'-like feature film involving several storylines on a collision course, and the results are entirely meh.

Full Review | Original Score: C minus

I preferred "Disconnect" 10 years ago when it was called "Crash."

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

"Disconnect" would have been wiser to focus more on the everyday ways technology alienates us from each other, rather than descend to this sort of fear-mongering melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: C