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It's thoughtful and well-acted, but Submission falls frustratingly short in its attempt to offer insightful commentary through its timely premise.
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A seriously considered film brimming with ideas worth examining. Mar 20, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A seriously considered film brimming with ideas worth examining.
Rex Reed
Tucci and Timlin are both quite good in their roles, and writer-director Richard Levine (adapting Francine Prose's 2000 novel "Blue Angel") does an excellent job of slowly escalating the pair's relationship. Mar 9, 2018 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Tucci and Timlin are both quite good in their roles, and writer-director Richard Levine (adapting Francine Prose's 2000 novel "Blue Angel") does an excellent job of slowly escalating the pair's relationship.
Adam Graham
Honoring the primacy of language for his characters, Levine deftly reveals the ways they wield it to seduce, attack, manipulate, repress and, occasionally, to communicate. Mar 8, 2018 | Full Review…
Honoring the primacy of language for his characters, Levine deftly reveals the ways they wield it to seduce, attack, manipulate, repress and, occasionally, to communicate.
Sheri Linden
For a movie addressing themes singularly suited to this moment, it's all the more disappointing when it whiffs those chances. Mar 7, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
For a movie addressing themes singularly suited to this moment, it's all the more disappointing when it whiffs those chances.
Ann Hornaday
The film squanders some dramatic possibilities and has a truncated sense about it. We are left to wonder whether something went wrong with the script, or in the editing room, or both. Mar 5, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The film squanders some dramatic possibilities and has a truncated sense about it. We are left to wonder whether something went wrong with the script, or in the editing room, or both.
David Lewis
Submission is so desperate not to become a cliché that it ultimately wastes a golden opportunity to become something more. Mar 5, 2018 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Submission is so desperate not to become a cliché that it ultimately wastes a golden opportunity to become something more.
David Ehrlich
Tucci and company make the film compelling, and although we know where things are headed, the occasional detour here and there makes for an interesting journey. Aug 14, 2018 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Tucci and company make the film compelling, and although we know where things are headed, the occasional detour here and there makes for an interesting journey.
Tom Santilli
There should be more outrage, more compassion, more something - yet the film can't capitalize on its hot-button premise. Jul 13, 2018 | Full Review…
There should be more outrage, more compassion, more something - yet the film can't capitalize on its hot-button premise.
Todd Jorgenson
Submission lacks the insight and perspective to become a movie that represents "now." When the current cultural, political, and social climates are especially contentious, perhaps we need a movie that will address these issues head-on. Apr 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Submission lacks the insight and perspective to become a movie that represents "now." When the current cultural, political, and social climates are especially contentious, perhaps we need a movie that will address these issues head-on.
Spencer Coile
Submission is a fine film held back by a script full of convenient plot developments and flimsy writing; a cautionary tale for the consequences of men thinking with their junk too much Mar 21, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Submission is a fine film held back by a script full of convenient plot developments and flimsy writing; a cautionary tale for the consequences of men thinking with their junk too much
Robert Kojder
...viewers will most likely overlook the strong performances by stars Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin and instead focus on the wasted opportunity to say something important about this moment in our time. Mar 19, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
...viewers will most likely overlook the strong performances by stars Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin and instead focus on the wasted opportunity to say something important about this moment in our time.
Travis Hopson
Submission might make itself useful as a mandatory instructional video for male professors; a "Scared Straight" for campus PhD's thinking about messing with nubile co-eds. Mar 16, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Submission might make itself useful as a mandatory instructional video for male professors; a "Scared Straight" for campus PhD's thinking about messing with nubile co-eds.
Mark Jackson
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