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"Fascinating...’Experimenter’ offers a heady brew of theories about the essence of human nature."

- Scott Foundas, Variety

"Michael Almereyda dissects the life and work of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram in a highly stylized biopic worthy of its subject."

- Scott Foundas, Variety

"Pushes levers with audacity."

- LA Times

"Director Michael Almereyda takes a stylized visual approach with bracing results."

- LA Times

"A conceptually exciting, intellectually searching portrait of the social psychologist Stanley Milgram (a superb Peter Sarsgaard), whose famous 1960s obedience experiments, in which subjects delivered punishing shocks on command, were later condemned."

- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"Sarsgaard stars in this smart and unsettling exploration of Stanley Milgram’s questionable experiment testing people’s allegiance to malevolent authority, and potentially exposing the dark heart of mankind."

- Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian

"Almereyda’s smartly written script attempts to make up for its lack of traditional dramatic elements with continuous questions about Milgram’s—and everyone’s—ability to make a choice in society."

- Anthony Kaufman, Screen Daily

"Far and away Almereyda’s strongest, most coherent, and moving film."

- Amy Taubin, Film Comment

"A darker comedy, indeed one that Kubrick might have envied, Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter is a spare, formally ingenious biopic about Stanley Milgram, the Yale social psychology professor who in 1961 concocted an experiment that demonstrated that obedience to authority overruled morality and empathy in a large majority of his subjects."

- Amy Taubin, Film Comment

"Grounded by strong performances from Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder."

- John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

"Intelligently written and well performed, Milgram’s results are chilling to comprehend, and Almereyda’s closing statements are wisely observed concerning the puppets that human beings tend to be, with awareness of our flawed natures the only available solace we can conceive."

- Nicholas Bell Ion Cinema

"Peter Sarsgaard is a mesmerizing."

- NY Times

"Fascinating."

- FLAVORWIRE

"Uncannily beautiful."

- NY Magazine

"The film belongs to Sarsgaard, whose snide inflection and quiet, wall-eyed intensity are ideally suited to the material."

- BROOKLYN MAGAZINE

"You’ll find that the film has worked its way underneath your skin while burrowing into your subconscious. Don’t be surprised if it stays there for a while."

- CUT PRINT FILM

"Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder give knockout performances."

- Examiner

"Many biopics simplify great lives; Experimenter enriches and enlarges one."

- Paste Magazine

"Outstanding. Sarsgaard gives one of his finest performances."

- Paste Magazine

"An aesthetically and intellectually playful portrait."

- Manohla Dargis, NY Times

"The most pleasingly cerebral of recent American films."

- RogerEbert.com

"CONCEPTUALLY EXCITING, INTELECTUALLY SEARCHING. Adventurous in form and thought, not just in subject. Mr. Almereyda has a boundless gift for finding new ways to tell old stories."

- Manohla Dargis, NY Times

"UNCANNILY BEAUTIFUL. THRILLINGLY REFLECTIVE. A gorgeous photo-realist circus."

- David Edelstein, New York Magazine

"MICHAEL ALMEREYDA IS ONE OF OUR TREASURES. ’Experimenter’ may be his ‘Zelig’ or ‘American Hustle’, the riff on history that lands him at the front of the cultural brainpan."

- Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

"DARING, BRACING, STUNNINGLY EVOCATIVE. ALIVE AND ALERT FROM ITS FIRST MOMENT. Rarely does a biopic balance its subject’s cultural importance and personal idiosyncrasies as finely as this remarkable film does."

- Tim Grierson, Paste

"STANLEY KUBRICK WOULD HAVE LOVED IT. Far and away director Almereyda’s strongest, most moving film. Winona Ryder is superb and so is Peter Sarsgaard."

- Amy Taubin, Film Comment

"A BRACING WORK OF SUBDUED AUDACITY."

- Sheri Linden, LA Times

". It delights in surprising the viewer, right up to its mysterious and perfectly judged final moment."

- Matt Prigge, Metro

"IT IS A THRILL to see Almereyda plunge full-bore into Milgram’s work and the implications of it both then and now."

- Scott Foundas, Variety