
Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry.... (Full plot summary below)
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Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry.
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| MetroMatt PriggeEven more experimental than 'Steve Jobs,' even more playful and - with 30 less minutes yet - even more lousy with ideas. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSeemingly loose and free-associative in style, Experimenter builds to an effect and, for all its humor — or rather, through its humor — makes a sober and chilling point. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenWriter-director Michael Almereyda, whose "Hamlet" and "Cymbeline" boldly reimagined Shakespeare, takes a stylized visual approach in Experimenter, with bracing results. |
| RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireOrson Welles once described his approach in “Citizen Kane” as “prismatic,” and while there are many differences in subject and style between that cinema milestone and Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter” the two films share a multi-faceted formal playfulness and an essential intellectual seriousness that make them similarly bracing, original and thought-provoking. |
| Washington PostStephanie MerryExperimenter’s most striking quality is the way it encourages us to think deeply, from the first frame to the last, even if it’s just to consider what on Earth an elephant is doing on screen. |
| VarietyScott FoundasExperimenter offers a heady brew of theories about the essence of human nature, and a Peter Sarsgaard performance that catches Milgram in all his seductive, megalomaniacal brilliance. |
| NewsdayJohn AndersonFascinating work by Michael Almereyda, a mix of audacious artifice, ruminations and reality. |
| New York Magazine/VultureDavid EdelsteinExperimenter is busily, thrillingly reflective. Its artificiality makes it seem even more alive, more in the present tense. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonThe movie is itself a rat-maze of one-sided mirrors, windows upon windows, anonymous hallways, compartmentalized instances of watching, being watched, seeing and not-seeing. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisMr. Almereyda takes Milgram, his work and ideas seriously but doesn’t suffocate them: Despite the story’s freight, the laboratory shocks and Milgram’s insistent melancholia, Experimenter is a nimble, low-frequency high. |