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Positive:
22
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
The TimesAug 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The storytelling is exceptional — Cuarón writes sublimely about family dynamics, sexual jealousy and the definitive lies that we tell to those closest to us and the greater ones we tell, ultimately, to ourselves. It’s thoughtful, disturbing, thrilling and sometimes even overwhelmingly good. Just don’t call it TV.
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IndieWireAug 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Some formal choices guide you toward the truth, while other cues are deliberate red herrings, hooking you on a line that leads right back to your own rod. In the end, I expect more than a few bitter reactions to Cuarón’s most provocative project since “Y tu mamá también.” But no one can argue they went in unprepared.
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TV Guide MagazineOct 24, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Disclaimer challenges our perceptions of truth while delivering an edge-of-the-seat psychological thriller. [28 Oct - 17 Nov 2024, p.4]
Oct 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The TV event series of the new season exposes the lies a celebrated documentarian (a knockout Cate Blanchett) tells her husband (Sacha Baron Cohen) and herself about a novelist (Kevin Kline, Emmy worthy) who writes about a shocking sex scandal from her youth that only pretends to be fiction.
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Oct 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Ms. Blanchett, Mr. Cohen and the predictably glorious Ms. Manville are all wonderful—there are moments that are startling in their frankness and genuine emotion; “Disclaimer” may prove a watershed in the gravitation of grown-up cinema to television, out of the Marvel universe of the multiplex and into a realm where someone like Mr. Cuarón and company can construct a story that deserves seven parts to tell.
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RogerEbert.comOct 11, 2024
Oct 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
This [its contortionist plot] can make the characters feel more like chess pieces than people you might care about, excellent performances notwithstanding. A course-correcting monologue by Blanchett late in the game is a splendid bit of acting that does much to put things in order — and Cuarón’s stylistic devices do make more sense retrospectively — though a brief epilogue does twist them around again.
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Oct 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
At the core of it, “Disclaimer” is elegant trash. It’s the TV series equivalent of that juicy beach novel you bought at the beginning of last summer, the one that plunged you into a world filled with complicated and deeply flawed people caught up in a web of intrigue. It’s best enjoyed if you don’t check the Logic Meter readings too many times.
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Aug 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The level of the talent involved, Cuarón especially, is remarkable. But it feels way too similar to other limited series and movies — specifically the ones based on thrillers from the Gillian Flynn section of the bookstore. Complaining about this feels a bit like complaining about water being wet.
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The PlaylistAug 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, “Disclaimer” finishes strong, Cuarón making a powerful statement—not anti cancel-culture so much—but about the need for compassion, restraint, and how over-zealous condemnations all make us complicit in a slippery slope culture of spiteful and ungenerous castigation.
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Oct 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
If “Disclaimer” is prestige pulp, Cuarón is more interested in the prestige than the pulp. After expertly turning the screws, the series slackens in the final stretch. A twist is revealed late in the story, resulting in a tidy resolution that is all fizzle, no fizz.
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Oct 3, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It almost works. But a sudden rush of revelations in the last two episodes upends much of what came before and resolves the story far too neatly. Having created a series that invested so much in exploring contradictions, Cuarón’s reliance on simple certainties is ultimately both disappointing and dissatisfying.
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Oct 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
In the series’s straight-ahead thriller sections, he [Cuarón] excels at building tension and staging horror. .... Still, “Disclaimer” is easier to admire than to enjoy. It grows increasingly and unproductively grim as it builds toward its well-telegraphed moral. It is the kind of accomplishment that you remember not emotionally but mechanically; you want to spread the parts out on a workbench and examine how they fit together.
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Oct 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
For a filmmaker, twist-heavy plots pose two obvious challenges: clarity and plausibility. Cuarón handles the first pretty well, the second not so much. .... The problem is that the dislikable things are done by or done to such consistently dislikable people. Caring about what happens next and why is puzzle-solving. Caring about the people involved is something more. “Disclaimer,” alas, is something less.
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The GuardianOct 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Slow, turgid, self-important but beautifully shot episodes are interspersed with the occasional scene – usually courtesy of an astonishing Manville – that pops up amid the stilted, mannered rubbish on screen and suddenly bursts your heart with grief, then puts it in a blender and purees it.
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Aug 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Disclaimer is too much time to spend with characters that the filmmaker regards with indifference at best and ignorance at worst. Cuarón renders this tale of rage, regret, and retribution in broad strokes. He loses the thread on their interiority, outsourcing the conveyance of their feelings to long-winded internal monologues.
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Oct 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Cuarón’s scripts, by contrast [to "Fleishman Is in Trouble"], are rootless and simplistic, and Blanchett’s chilly, patrician protagonist merely recalls the actor’s more layered performances in superior projects like “Tár” and “Mrs. America.” Bizarre, affectless second-person narration describes the scenes we’re already watching or provides only the most insipid exposition.
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Oct 11, 2024
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