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By Josh Lasser (114) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 07 Sep 2015

An at times very upsetting film about our true nature, The Stanford Prison Experiment is full of great performances, particularly from Michael…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Aug 2015

History has taught us these basic principles time and again and this admirable movie fails to adequately convey what made this particular experiment…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 20 Aug 2015

The simple and straightforward approach makes it more unsettling and provocative, offering a clinical yet suspenseful morality play about power…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 20 Aug 2015

Aside from verifiably accurate production design, there's also something true in how young and vulnerable these volunteers seem…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 13 Aug 2015

The Stanford Prison Experiment is the kind of movie that raises as many questions as it answers…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2015

What we witness onscreen is horrifying and deeply disturbing (as it should be), but a little more context might help us to not feel so marooned…

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By Brad Keefe (343) for Columbus Alive (355) on 05 Aug 2015

So focused on the experiment itself that we don't get much insight into who these students were before or after, but it's still gripping…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Aug 2015

Zimbardo insists he's 'trying to understand how an institution affects an individual's behavior.' Alvarez's own dark study, empowered by potent…

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By Mathew Dekinder (396) for Suburban Journals of St. Louis (395) on 01 Aug 2015

The movie 'The Stanford Prison Experiment' tensely and relentlessly shows how easily these affluent, intelligent college students devolved…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 31 Jul 2015

A visceral experience that will be hard to match, this is one experiment that is an indisputable success…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 31 Jul 2015

Intense and provocative, as role-playing goes horribly awry…

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By Jeff Baker (191) for Oregonian (1,550) on 30 Jul 2015

Kyle Patrick Alvarez, whose previous movie was the filmed-in-Oregon C.O.G., stages the many torture scenes in a tight, claustrophobic way that…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 30 Jul 2015

An uneven, though compelling and unsettling film...When it's over you may think you've been put through the wringer…

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By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 30 Jul 2015

A laser focus on the titular, infamous 1971 incident keeps this dark drama intriguing even when it gets too obvious in its nudges at 21st-century…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Jul 2015

The film works hard to keep up the suspense: how far will the guards go? How much can the prisoners take…

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By Molly Eichel (91) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 29 Jul 2015

Watching these young men brutalize each other is troubling enough, but perhaps the film's most interesting angle is how the experiment changes…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Jul 2015

It never should've been OK'd in the first place and never should've gotten past the first day…

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By Sam Watermeier (59) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 29 Jul 2015

The Stanford Prison Experiment is all too timely. This film puts its finger firmly on the pulse of America at the moment…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Jul 2015

The film can be appreciated, if only as a showcase for its assured, emotional attuned performances, as a convincing time capsule and period…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Jul 2015

Billy Crudup gives a fine performance as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who engineered the whole thing and was then pulled into his own power trip…

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