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Cut to Oliva, who is hooking up with her hunky boyfriend named Ryan. She is a writer who is struggling to pull her life together after a string of back luck. She gets kicked out of her apartment for being behind on rent by four months, loses her job, and catches Ryan cheating. (Oh, and also her parents are dead.
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| RogerEbert.comNell MinowThere are many layers of complex, sensitive, and controversial subjects in The Surrogate, but writer/director Jeremy Hersh never lets it get preachy. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThis clear-eyed ethical drama is propelled by a performance of stunning psychological insight and raw feeling from Jasmine Batchelor. But the film is rendered even more affecting by the careful consideration it gives to the impact of her character's fluctuating decision-making, both on the people directly involved and those on the fringes. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinNo one is a bad guy here, while all of them are also flawed, and the movie keeps the viewer wondering right up to the end what Jess will finally decide. |
| The Observer (UK)Simran HansWriter-director Jeremy Hersh tackles the intersection of race, sexuality, class and disability with rare nuance in this wry indie drama, which observes sharply the trappings of millennial entitlement and liberal hypocrisy. |
| Screen DailyWendy IdeWhat’s deeply satisfying about this knotty drama is the even-handed approach. |
| The PlaylistJonathan ChristianImperfections cannot steal away the ambitious underpinnings of Hersh’s intentions for “The Surrogate,” a down-to-earth analysis of the ever-precarious, self-serving human condition; an examination that speaks volumes despite its reserved demeanor. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe tone ranges from testy to distraught, but always “adult” in the insistence on talking this out. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakThe result can be frustratingly militant in its desire to show all angles of its central conflict (and how it sparks others), but the questions it makes us ask ourselves are worth it. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyThat writer-director Jeremy Hersh’s debut feature is a screen original surprises, not because it’s “stagy” (though he has written plays), but because its engagingly argumentative virtues aren’t typical for movies anymore, if they ever were. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandAs Jess, Jasmine Batchelor (the film marks her first starring role in a film, the actress also produced it) turns in one of the year’s best performances, profound work that twists an already propulsive concept into a riveting character study. |
