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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Oct 2015

Writer-director Michael Almereyda, whose Hamlet and Cymbeline boldly reimagined Shakespeare, takes a stylized visual approach in Experimenter,…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Oct 2015

Mr…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for TheWrap (3,203) on 14 Oct 2015

Experimenter is a largely engrossing sit, even during an unfortunate moment when Sarsgaard sings and the film threatens to become a musical…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Oct 2015

The film bears the subtitle The Stanley Milgram Story, but it’s most effective when it strenuously avoids biopic conventions, focusing intently…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 14 Oct 2015

Experimenter is admirably committed to being a film about ideas, to grappling with the legacy of a still topical study, and to tinkering with…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Oct 2015

Ethical objections to Milgram’s work are presented as killing the messenger; well-known issues with his methodology appear not at all…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 13 Oct 2015

Even more experimental than 'Steve Jobs,' even more playful and - with 30 less minutes yet - even more lousy with ideas…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 13 Oct 2015

Watching Experimenter is to realize how little life is in most biopics…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2015

The movie is itself a rat-maze of one-sided mirrors, windows upon windows, anonymous hallways, compartmentalized instances of watching, being…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 11 Oct 2015

Experimenter is busily, thrillingly reflective. Its artificiality makes it seem even more alive, more in the present tense…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 08 Oct 2015

History's most famous experiment in social psychological gets dramatic treatment here…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 05 Oct 2015

Experimenter is a capital example of that prophet-ahead-of-his-time narrative, a movie about a scientist who lived (just) long enough to revel…

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By Clayton Davis (240) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 26 Sep 2015

Michael Almereyda's Experimenter is so bizarrely structured, there's so little to admire or invest as you're constantly ripped in and out of…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2015

Aesthetically, the film cunningly suggests life that exists solely within an academic experiment, closed off from chaos that isn't manufactured…

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By Luisa M (93) on 01 Aug 2015

Vu à Fantasia…

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By Jacques O (9) on 25 Jul 2015

Interesting biopic which takes a lighthearted look a less pleasant aspects of human nature…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Mar 2015

Experimenter offers a heady brew of theories about the essence of human nature, and a Peter Sarsgaard performance that catches Milgram in all…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Mar 2015

Technically puckish where appropriate but grounded by strong performances from Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder, the film is not awards bait…

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By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 26 Mar 2015

Almereyda has created an experiment of his own: a kind of cinematic Rorschach test, prodding viewers to consider what they would do if sitting…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 Mar 2015

While the experiment itself is fascinating, the approach taken by Almereyda in using distractingly peculiar storytelling techniques only succeed…

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