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

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio lends this adaptation of Naomi Alderman's 2006 novel of the same name an outsider's curiosity... only a foreigner could bring this much lyricism to locations within spitting distance of the North Circular.

| Jan 26, 2019

I was informed by my viewing companion that I started to do the "wrap it up" hand motion before the credits even began to roll.

| Jan 23, 2019

It reinforces the old Thomas Wolfe cliché that you can't go home again, but it does so with emotional vivacity and richly compelling context.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2018

Weisz and McAdams animate their roles; Weisz plays witty and wizened, while McAdams seems winded by the force of her own emotions, face crumpling convincingly into a cry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2018

An understated yet profound examination of identity and self-sacrifice, this honest depiction of repressed romance will unashamedly tug at every heart string.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2018

Bold, thought-provoking... but it's also sensitive.

| Dec 1, 2018

Disobedience begins with a Rabbi's sermon about free choice, and will go on to test, with the star wattage of two Rachels on top form, how far ultra-Orthodox Judaism truly allows it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2018

Disobedience eschews emotional pyrotechnics in favour of restraint, meaningful sideways glances, and whispered arguments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2018

It's pretty dismal all told.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 30, 2018

Another thought-provoking study in how society dictates how women are allowed to feel, it's achingly eloquent and explosively erotic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2018

Such a pity this film can't make us care.

| Nov 29, 2018

Brilliantly directed by the Chilean-Argentine Sebastián Lelio, Disobedience is very different from typical British realist drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2018

Falls dead like a bird from the sky.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2018

Disobedience is the kind of woman-at-a-crossroads film I love: I am enthralled by women discovering their true selves, seeking pleasure and challenging the way they are perceived.

| Aug 28, 2018

A great love story requires high stakes, like any other story, and this one delivers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2018

What distinguishes Disobedience from lesbian films such as, for example, Todd Haynes's Carol, is the context of the ultra-patriarchal society in which these two young women are so passionately drawn to one another.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2018

[McAdams'] slow-burn of a performance is an undeniable stunner.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 25, 2018

The film gets the exterior structures of religion, and even gets the idea of belief, but fails to grasp its content...Of course, such considerations are easy to overlook when a decade's worth of repressed sexuality is bubbling over.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2018

Ronit is rebellious, Esti is repressed-two points that Disobedience repeats over and over until the dynamic starts to feel caricatured.

| May 21, 2018