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Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreLevine writes and shoots enough scenes in inventive ways to make this mildly-frustrating melodrama work.
- 63RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyTucci is wonderful, but Timlin comes close to eating him up almost as thoroughly as her character does his.
- 63San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSan Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSubmission is not a bad film — it just feels like an early draft.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberDespite many script problems, Levine has kept the film tightly coiled and engrossing throughout.
- 58IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichLike a time-traveler who sets into motion the same fate they’re trying to undo, Submission is so desperate not to become a cliché that it ultimately wastes a golden opportunity to become something more.
- 50Slant MagazineOleg IvanovSlant MagazineOleg IvanovThis tentative questioning of the sometimes unscrupulous methods and deleterious consequences of political correctness is further undermined by Ted's insipid character and general indifference to his fate.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThe satire is cautious and the emotions restrained, so that what should be a swirl of lust, ambition, recrimination and bureaucratic absurdity rises only to genteel, nervous laughter and mild discomfort.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanLevine, who wrote the script, knows how to stage an energized intellectual battle, but adapting “The Blue Angel” to a 21st-century setting turns out to be a distinctly musty and unrewarding idea.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversSubmission – despite valiant performances from Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin as the parties involved – lacks the spark it needs to spring to life.
- 40Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlYou know that moment about fifteen minutes before the end of most American narrative features, when the protagonist is brought to his or her low point, and it looks as if there’s no possible way things could get better? Something has probably gone wrong if viewers are cheering that.