Indignation

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.

A compelling drama.

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

An elegantly muted, unashamedly talky period drama.

Finally, a Philip Roth adaptation that works.

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

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

Indignation has a palpable humanity to its fury.

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

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