| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Surprisingly successful adaptation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2009

It's an enormously complicated story with great potential for reductive schmaltz, but this is avoided thanks to Anna Maria Monticelli's sharp, sensitive screenplay and superb performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2009

It's hard to say what this solid but unadventurous film adds to Coetzee's powerful source material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

A worthwhile film which is concerned to do the right thing by a modern classic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

It's a faithful adaptation, but one that's been indifferently shot by director Steve Jacobs, whose blunt technique tends to flatten the book's morose charge. Still, the acting is often excellent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

This disquieting drama serves as a platform for Malkovich, whose eloquent performance draws you in with great compassion.

Full Review | Dec 4, 2009

As the last shot lingers, you long to find out what happens next.

| Dec 4, 2009

This is tragic inevitability at one mile per hour, extending into a slow, sunbaked danse macabre the drama's heartbreak and the guilt, anguish and wrath.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

The visionary gravity of J M Coetzee's Booker-winning novel is perhaps untranslatable to the screen, but Steve Jacobs's film is a very creditable try.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

The movie eventually begins to wilt under the sober, plodding direction of Steve Jacobs, but the thoughtful screenplay gives Malkovich a complex, increasingly reflective character arc that he plays with great feeling.

| Oct 2, 2009

Demanding but ultimately rewarding...

| Sep 25, 2009

Unfortunately, though Malkovich remains a compelling and cerebral screen presence, he comes off as too innately detached and prickly to elicit much empathy (not that his character is asking for it, mind you).

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 25, 2009

Disgrace is an ugly movie, at times torturous to watch. It probably needs to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2009

I awaited the closing scenes of Disgrace with a special urgency, because the story had gripped me deeply but left me with no idea how it would end. None -- and I really cared.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 24, 2009

Newcomer Jessica Haines is transparent and heartbreaking as the prof's unorthodox daughter, a victim of violence as the old ways crumble.

| Original Score: B | Sep 23, 2009

Steve Jacobs' elegantly disturbing film follows the exploits - or, more accurately, the exploitations - of 52-year-old professor David Lurie, a dissolute aesthete whose erudition does little to mask grotesque character flaws.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 18, 2009

After a compelling opening act and some shocking late-film developments, the film feels disengaged from the action at hand and the issues raised.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 18, 2009

I cannot tell a lie. I derive great satisfaction watching John Malkovich act.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2009

A faithful, compelling screen adaptation of J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning 1999 novel.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2009