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Submission
Directed by
Richard Levine
R
2019
1h 46m
Drama
,
Mystery
5.7
50%
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A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student.
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Cast of Submission
Stanley Tucci
Ted Swenson
Addison Timlin
Angela Argo
Kyra Sedgwick
Sherrie Swenson
Janeane Garofalo
Magda Moynahan
Ritchie Coster
Dean Bentham
Colby Minifie
Ruby Swenson
Alison Bartlett
Angela's Mother
David Pittu
Bernard Levy
Henry Stram
Dave Sterret
Stephanie Berry
Arlene Shurley
Kenneth De Abrew
Govind
Juan Castano
Carlos
Ashley Trawinski
Meg
Nicole Orth-Pallavicini
Marge Bentham
Matt Ballard
Steven Argo
Wali Collins
Gerry Sloper
Barbara Spiegel
Betty Hester
Malika Samuel
Makeesha
Devin Kawaoka
Danny
Emily Walton
Claris
Madeline Virbasius
Ruth Levy
Soojeong Son
Female Student
Submission Ratings & Reviews
indieWire
David Ehrlich
Submission is so desperate not to become a clich that it ultimately wastes a golden opportunity to become something more.
Observer
Rex Reed
A seriously considered film brimming with ideas worth examining.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
We could use a solid movie right now to take on gender politics with literate precision and blunt provocation. Submission is definitely not it.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
The film squanders some dramatic possibilities and has a truncated sense about it. We are left to wonder whether something went wrong with the script, or in the editing room, or both.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Tucci and Timlin are both quite good in their roles, and writer-director Richard Levine (adapting Francine Prose's 2000 novel "Blue Angel") does an excellent job of slowly escalating the pair's relationship.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
It's lit-dude catnip.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
For a movie addressing themes singularly suited to this moment, it's all the more disappointing when it whiffs those chances.
Slant Magazine
Oleg Ivanov
This 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.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Honoring the primacy of language for his characters, Levine deftly reveals the ways they wield it to seduce, attack, manipulate, repress and, occasionally, to communicate.
NPR
Ella Taylor
It's an age-old fable about the point where desire meets device, and invariably loses.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
By making a none-too-convincing femme fatale the source of its drama, "Submission" comes off as an antiquated and rather reactionary campus parable.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Can a movie be provocatively timid? Clumsy and coy at the same time? The more you think about "Submission," the less relevant it looks.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
The only suspense lies in wondering whether this film released in 2018 actually is going to unfold like some low-key Nineties Michael Douglas sex thriller set on a college campus ...
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Despite many script problems, Levine has kept the film tightly coiled and engrossing throughout.
Epoch Times
Mark Jackson
Submission might make itself useful as a mandatory instructional video for male professors; a "Scared Straight" for campus PhD's thinking about messing with nubile co-eds.
ArtsATL
Steve Murray
[Addison] Timlin, to her credit, is very good in a role that requires her to range from dithering insecurity to steely opportunist. Likewise, Sedgwick is forced to play an implausibly twinkly, loving spouse, only to turn gorgon in her last scene.
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
Throughout, this charge, Angela's lie, and Ted's complicitness are treated as little more than a student contesting her grades. And for this, Submission gets an F.
Daily Film Fix
Jonathan W. Hickman
Frustrating but sincere and well acted, especially by Tucci, who embodies a middle-aged man in transition, "Submission" explores well the risk associated with stepping out of one's comfort zone and shaking free from the stranglehold of mediocrity.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
... a dim-witted film that reinforces insulting male and female stereotypes as it follows a veteran college writing professor, navely malleable and easily seduced by an attractive, ambitious, duplicitous female student.
Punch Drunk Critics
Travis Hopson
...viewers will most likely overlook the strong performances by stars Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin and instead focus on the wasted opportunity to say something important about this moment in our time.
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