Indignation
Set in1951, the movie tells the story of Marcus (Logan Lerman), a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, who falls for a young woman (Sarah Gadon) while clashing with his dean (Tracy Letts) in 1951 Ohio.
4 April 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4 December 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 March 1950, Cedarville, Michigan, USA
4 December 1986, New York City, New York, USA
30 August 1988, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
4 July 1965, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
16 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
10 February 1960, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
19 September 1978, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
January 01, 2017
Despite occasional (brief) flashes of resistance, when a personality threatens to surface, Marcus is so passive, he's practically inert.
August 12, 2016
Despite its pluses, "Indignation" often plays like a heavy handed after-school special. It's not so much indignant as it is tedious.
August 04, 2016
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.
December 27, 2016
The period detail is reverent, every sweater and side-parting just-so. Yet the stifling design makes a good fit for the airless world in which Marcus is marooned, and the reminders of darkness and death at the edge of the film relieve the prettiness.
January 13, 2017
James Schamus, the longtime maverick film producer who co-wrote many of Ang Lee's films, adapts the 2008 Philip Roth novel and directs this measured, serious, heavily introspective coming-of-age drama.
November 14, 2016
A mildly interesting coming-of-age tale, nothing more.
August 11, 2016
"Indignation" is an elegant debut for longtime producer Schamus; a visit to the past, with both sunshine and darkness.
January 08, 2017
The philosophical debate at the heart of the film works better than the sensitive romance around it.
August 05, 2016
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.
December 27, 2016
A compelling drama.
August 08, 2016
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.
