Schamus’s film is a particular kind of a film which is heart-breaking in individual scenes and bitter-sweet in its overall presentation

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Indignation has a palpable humanity to its fury.

| Nov 13, 2023

Schamus can at least uncontroversially claim the mantle of having made the only at-least-partially-successful, generally acclaimed Roth adaptation to date.

| Jan 18, 2023

Glacial pacing aside, this is a solid, quietly rewarding coming of age tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2022

Indignation is the kind of movie that begs you to notice the production design and costumes. It's not just that they're beautiful; they're also symbolically rich...

| Jan 5, 2021

...there is this: unlike most in today's artistic community, Roth is certainly not blind or complacent. He remains "indignant," and that is something.

| Aug 7, 2020

It felt like an incomplete thought to me.

| May 6, 2020

This movie took me in a very different direction than I thought we were going.

| May 6, 2020

As a directorial debut, Schamus's Indignation is a stunning, deeply affecting piece with a powerful performance from Lerman.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 15, 2019

Logan Lerman in a tour-de-force performance amazes with an intensity and rhythmic vocal and emotional cadence that is riveting.

| Nov 3, 2019

Indignation is not for the action crowd but for for fans of finely crafted drama and splendid acting, it has much to offer.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 3, 2019

Even if the bookending sequences thematically overstretch, the film remains an alluring, moving tapestry of a nation unfolding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2019

Logan Lerman is superb, never off screen as fresh-faced Marcus - studious, solitary, intense, precociously intelligent yet emotionally naïve.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2018

A tale of blemishes that are not skin-deep, and where too much bluster will surely scald.

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

James Schamus handles the writing and directing of the story in a sophisticated and realistic manner, which is only improved upon by the strong acting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Tribulations of a Jewish fellow in a mostly Christian college. For Philip Roth fans especially.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 13, 2017

What ensues is slow and wordy but beautifully acted and turns out to be about fate, choices and why a boy should always listen to his mother.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2017

The surprising ending recasts the story in a different, darker light than you may otherwise have seen it. Roth's work hasn't generally translated well to film, but this adaptation raises hope that more filmmakers will tackle him.

| Sep 23, 2017

Indignation resolutely remains a solitary character study, and it challenges viewers to look inward for a glimpse of their own quiet redemption.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

We never connect to him as an individual to care about; he's a stick figure created to bear the brunt of all the angst directed at the outsider in an unforgiving social order.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2017