A beautiful Netflix original that takes seriously religious mysticism... [and] navigates the ephemeral and enchants the viewer in the process.

| Jul 19, 2024

Without being judgmental, The Disciple succeeds in questioning the age-old notion of sacrifice as a means to attaining higher goals.

| Mar 25, 2024

Chaitanya Tamhane’s sophomore film makes for an immersive, poetic watch, brought to life by a terrific team of technicians and actors.

| Sep 26, 2023

If Disciple feels more personal than most, it is because its preoccupations are more noble than what it appears. The question at the heart of this artistic expedition is not the need to achieve greatness but the reason for doing so

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 26, 2022

But in Tamhane's skilled hands, "The Disciple" offers a glimpse of artistic frustration that is at the same time both behaviorally perceptive and emotionally satisfying.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 16, 2022

THE DISCIPLE is a carefully constructed, slowly, almost hypnotically progressing film that is more than just the precise analysis of a struggling, suffering artist.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 8, 2022

The director’s understated approach allows the performance scenes to advance the story on a philosophical and emotional level that makes The Disciple ever more absorbing as it progresses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2022

It is a brilliant portrait of a young artist, and even Western audiences may learn the nuances in its frequent performances and rehearsals.

| Dec 29, 2021

The Disciple seems to be Tamhane expressing his own deeper worries and insecurities. The 34-year-old director is one of India's contemporary greats, but local recognition ... alludes him in a masala-obsessed Bollywood-dominated society.

| Dec 29, 2021

The stylistic subtlety adds depth fo the film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 29, 2021

It's very valuable that a director trusts the sensitivity of their audience to know what is the meaning of a sequence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 31, 2021

A slow-build marvel about someone trying to reconcile the practical with the sublime.

| Aug 11, 2021

The Disciple transcends any pyrotechnic or picturesque excess. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2021

[T]he director Chaitanya Tamhane insists on several musical moments that little by little become tedious, but that are but the prelude to the great plot twist. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 14, 2021

Much like the framework of a classical raag, the film is structured both formally and narratively around variations ... that build into a grueling cyclicality.

| Jun 6, 2021

A meditative study, powered by a layered narrative and stunning visuals, about the difficult road to achieve success and perfection. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 6, 2021

The long duration of the film and a somewhat soulless approach gives this lesson in life an extra bitterness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2021

We don't need to know a lot about this old musical genre to get trapped by its charm [Full review in Spanish]

| May 30, 2021

The genuinely talented who are left with no option but to languish in anonymity. The Disciple overwhelmed me with adeep sense of loss that underlines it.

| May 18, 2021

The Disciple is a story of enchantment and disenchantment, about the purity of art and the impossibility of attaining it, about inadequacy and disappointment.

| May 17, 2021