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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2016

A compelling drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2016

I'm glad Indignation exists. In its own, quietly explosive way, it leaves a very human stain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2016

An elegantly muted, unashamedly talky period drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2016

Finally, a Philip Roth adaptation that works.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2016

Schamus shows just how easily a life can unravel. That's what makes Indignation such grim but poignant viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2016

The pace plods, and this heavily furnished, inadequately ventilated movie never entirely comes to life.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2016

Indignation is an adaptation of Philip Roth's 2008 novel and amazingly, for an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel -- see the recent dog's dinner that was American Pastoral, for example -- it may even be worth two hours of your time.

| Nov 17, 2016

It's considerably too polite to do Philip Roth justice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2016

It's very solid and admirable, if hardly a fun time at the flicks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2016

A mildly interesting coming-of-age tale, nothing more.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2016

Indignation may indeed be the best of the Roth adaptations, but it also illustrates just how difficult adapting Roth can be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2016

Despite its pluses, "Indignation" often plays like a heavy handed after-school special. It's not so much indignant as it is tedious.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 12, 2016

[Schamus] shows a steady hand, yet the film nevertheless feels cautious and underplayed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2016

"Indignation" is an elegant debut for longtime producer Schamus; a visit to the past, with both sunshine and darkness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 4, 2016

The most striking moment is a quietly fierce monologue from the boy's mother (veteran character actress Linda Emond) in which she talks him down from marrying the fragile young woman.

| Aug 4, 2016

This is one helluva compelling film that presents us with several of the very best performances of the year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 4, 2016

Despite the material's fit, the story's relentlessly downbeat tone is challenging.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 4, 2016