Disconnect Reviews
Top CriticHandsomely shot and judiciously edited, the film benefits from a superlative cast ...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
It's left to the actors to make up for the gaffes, and they're definitely up to the task.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Even in the heightened awareness of a post- age (and its ), Disconnect is naturally gripping.
Journalists lie, spouses stray and thieves steal, but "Disconnect" keeps trying, unsuccessfully, to pin the blame on technology rather than its users.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
I preferred "Disconnect" 10 years ago when it was called "Crash."
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
As cautionary tales go, "Disconnect" is a pretty good one, but it's not really a whole lot more than that.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
In the sobering drama Disconnect, technology is one of the culprits that separate people from each other - but not the only one.
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| Original Score: 3/4
"There wasn't a moment during this movie when I was thinking about anything other than this movie"
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| Original Score: 5/5
One of the rare films that directly responds to and expresses modern anxieties.
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| Original Score: 4/4
A deeply flawed motion picture containing moments of brilliance that illustrate its strong thematic content.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Soulful though the film is, melodrama gradually sneaks in, and then it takes over.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Not as bad as 'Crash,' but it sure as heck ain't good
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| Original Score: 3.5/10
What works is the uncomfortable intimacy of peering over the shoulders of, say, Patton when she watches YouTube videos of her dead son, and the shudder of recognition that our hard drives are our external consciences.
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| Original Score: 3/5
A bleak vision of life in the Internet age as an asocial network where faceless predators abound, heedless kids live secret lives, everything is phishy until proven otherwise and quests for love or intimacy lead to loneliness or grief.
Rubin, the award-winning documentary filmmaker of Murderball, working with a script by Andrew Stern, is good with the details, and he gets strong performances from his cast in this, his debut feature.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Worst-case scenarios for our forays into chat rooms and social network sites are laid bare, as are the illegal and immoral contours of the digital landscape in this well-acted dramatic thriller.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The film ominously conveys a world of too much information but too little communication, where people have become slaves to glowing hand-held devices that were designed to make life easier but have made it busier and more complicated.
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| Original Score: 5/5
"Disconnect" is far from a bad movie. It's just better at melodrama than drama.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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.)
[An] unsubtle but unsettling assessment of contemporary technology.
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| Original Score: 3/5
I believed the lives of these people. I believed they'd do the drastic things they do in the face of crisis. I ached for them when things went terribly wrong and rooted for them when there were glimmers of hope.
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| Original Score: 4/4
How a new director works with actors is telling, and the performances in Disconnect are first-rate all the way.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The thematic points are made clearly, with well-sustained tension and no shortage of dramatic impact. It's just that it's all a bit obvious ...
Responsible, riveting and intense, it's a film about cybercrime that left me shaking-the movie equivalent of sticking a wet finger into a hot socket.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
While well-crafted and at times moving, screenwriter Andrew Stern's cautionary tales can't help but feel behind the curve, the news they're so urgently sharing already fully absorbed by the culture.
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.
