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  • 2018
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Ted (Stanley Tucci) is a once-acclaimed author who teaches writing at a small liberal arts college. Though his marriage to Sherrie (Kyra Sedgwick) is comfortable, he finds himself drowning in discontent -- stuffy departmental dinners at which he drinks too much, smug colleagues whom he dislikes yet fears he resembles, and an endless stre...

Directed By: Richard Levine

Written By: Francine Prose, Richard Levine

  • 2018
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 46 m

Submission

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
52
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Ted (Stanley Tucci) is a once-acclaimed author who teaches writing at a small liberal arts college. Though his marriage to Sherrie (Kyra Sedgwick) is comfortable, he finds himself drowning in discontent -- stuffy departmental dinners at which he drinks too much, smug colleagues whom he dislikes yet fears he resembles, and an endless stre...

Directed By: Richard Levine

Written By: Francine Prose, Richard Levine

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Metascore
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38% Positive
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Mar 8, 2018
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.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 7, 2018
Submission is not a bad film — it just feels like an early draft.
By David Lewis FULL REVIEW

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71% Positive
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14% Mixed
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14% Negative
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63
Feb 12, 2018
Levine writes and shoots enough scenes in inventive ways to make this mildly-frustrating melodrama work.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
58
Mar 6, 2018
Like 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.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 2, 2018
Submission – despite valiant performances from Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin as the parties involved – lacks the spark it needs to spring to life.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 28, 2018
The 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.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 1, 2018
You 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.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Great Point Media, Mighty Engine, Olive Productions, Ospringe Media Limited
Release Date Mar 2, 2018
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
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Tagline He read her story. Then he became part of it.
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