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# Disclosure (1994): what the critics said

Critics' score 54 from 7 reviews: 1 positive, 4 mixed, 2 negative.

Most critics land in the middle on Disclosure, treating it as a glossy, competently made thriller that takes a provocative subject and handles it shallowly. The reviews agree it is watchable: Empire calls it tightly directed entertainment, and Roger Ebert, though mixed, finds the sexual harassment premise compelling even when the storytelling is not. Where praise clusters is odd for a thriller: the Los Angeles Times picks out the office design and the virtual-reality sequences as surprising highlights, and Empire the chemistry between Michael Douglas and Demi Moore.

The spread is wide. Reservations gather around the plotting, which the Los Angeles Times calls muddled and short of creative passion, and around the film’s seriousness about corporate power and sexual politics, which Radio Times finds self-important and unintentionally funny. The New Yorker goes furthest, calling it tasteful and bland, with Douglas’s painfully ambivalent turn in the central sex scene its one camp pleasure. Two of the seven reviews cannot be read in full.

## Empire — Ian Nathan

Fi1m's normalised score 70/100 (inferred from the text). 1 January 2000. 

Nathan finds the film glossy, tightly directed entertainment, despite its shallow handling of sexual harassment and corporate intrigue. He singles out the chemistry between Michael Douglas and Demi Moore as a strength.

[Read the review](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/disclosure-review/)

## The New York Times

Fi1m's normalised score 64/100 (inferred from the text). 9 December 1994. 

The page content is blocked, so the critic’s verdict cannot be determined. No specific praise or complaint can be verified from the available text.

[Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/09/movies/film-review-disclosure-doing-business-in-a-manner-most-unbusinesslike.html)

## Time Out — TCh

Fi1m's normalised score 64/100 (inferred from the text). 

The available page identifies this as a review but does not reveal the critic’s verdict. Its visible description introduces the workplace conflict over a promotion and an old flame.

[Read the review](https://www.timeout.com/movies/disclosure-1)

## RogerEbert.com — Roger Ebert

Rating 2.5/4. 9 December 1994. 

Ebert gives the film a mixed verdict. He singles out its treatment of sexual harassment as a compelling subject, though the story’s execution is less persuasive.

[Read the review](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/disclosure-1994)

## Los Angeles Times — Kenneth Turan

Fi1m's normalised score 50/100 (inferred from the text). 9 December 1994. 

Turan finds the film adequately entertaining but undercut by muddled plot points and a lack of creative passion. He singles out the office design and virtual-reality visuals as surprising highlights.

[Read the review](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-09-ca-14310-story.html)

## Radio Times — Adrian Turner

Rating 2/5. 

Turner finds the thriller self-important and unintentionally funny. He criticizes its attempt to address corporate power and sexual equality.

[Read the review](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-hb6ynn/disclosure/)

## The New Yorker — Terrence Rafferty

Fi1m's normalised score 25/100 (inferred from the text). 11 December 1994. 

Rafferty finds the film tasteful, bland, and only mildly entertaining. He singles out Michael Douglas’s painfully ambivalent performance in the central sex scene as its campy highlight.

[Read the review](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/12/19/woman-on-top)

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