Disobedience tackles various thought provoking themes in a somewhat scattershot fashion, yet remains engaging due to the strength of its actors and direction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The film repeatedly demonstrates that one of the best ways to build passion in a film is to present the implicit unspoken in a manor to outweigh explicit expression. The fates tempted here are subtly perilous.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2024

Esti plunges herself into the terrifying uncertain place between obedience and disobedience, and it is her courage to stay there — to be defiantly out-of-sync — that powers Lelio’s arresting film.

| Feb 6, 2024

Disobedience takes a social minority, a Jewish community - and even more so, one with conservative beliefs - to expose the feelings of another minority, women, and more specifically of a third minority, lesbians.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 28, 2023

Disobedience is a new take on star-crossed lovers, and, unfortunately, one that doesn’t quite stick the landing. It’s a fascinating rumination on the intersections of free will and religion through a love story that never got to see its full potential.

| Jul 25, 2023

Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola turn in riveting performances as childhood friends whose adult lives are torn apart by illicit passion.

| Dec 7, 2022

I will always stand by the silent, slightly uncomfortable beauty of this particular moment...

| Sep 26, 2022

Disobedience took the wind right out of me

| Jan 10, 2022

Though slow at times, Disobedience is a gutsy film that gives a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of a community so rarely depicted on screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021

This could have been a film on forbidden love, but it was way smarter than that - it's a story of self-love, the love of life that is in our nature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Far from a predictable foil or a mouthpiece for close-minded religiosity, Dovid instead emerges as the picture's most complex character, and Nivola is excellent at making the man sympathetic rather than sanctimonious.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2021

The result is that those moments feel robbed of potential. Thankfully, the film's overall potential is reached, brilliantly so, in McAdams and Nivola's performances.

| Apr 13, 2021

A portrait of forbidden love that is transfixing and anchored by three flawless leading performances.

| Oct 9, 2020

It is fair to say that Weisz so completely surrenders herself here that her performance is mesmerizing.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

I see the qualities it wears on its sleeve, but my staring at them doesn't make me care more. If anything, it only desensitizes me -- and dare I say dulls the experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

It's a rare film that can address three major themes with a single pared-down narrative, and even rarer when it features three stellar performances to boot.

| Jun 27, 2020

The film is blessed with energetic turns from its lead cast.

| Jun 2, 2020

From the very start [ilmmaker Sebastián Lelio] stacks the deck in favor of Weisz's secularized character, and as a result the Orthodox community becomes little more than the backdrop for a simple lesson about following your heart.

| Mar 25, 2020

Disobedience is a slow-burning character study that erupts only occasionally with violent emotion.

| Feb 7, 2020

Understated drama about two women coming to terms with their sexuality within a Jewish Orthodox community. It doesn't obey any of the clichés this subgenre has us used to.

| Jan 27, 2020