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Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander acts like a total child in this mind-twister set in the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled. Elizabeth...
Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander acts like a total child in this mind-twister set in the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled. Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday) play a couple looking to become parents, but must undergo a seven-day assessment from an observer (Vikander) who roleplays as their unruly daughter.
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82 %73 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
93 %76 reviewsAudience score rating
"A ton of style, and signals from the beginning her confident use of framing, texture and color."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com"A speculative and futurist contrivance that’s elegant, amusing, discomfiting and just the right side of preposterous."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Manages to build a world that feels both genuinely new and depressingly realistic if human society goes too far down the wrong path."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"Smartly taps into and maintains its focus on the near universal anxiety about parenting..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"So idiosyncratic that it might’ve been even better if it had dropped its genre trappings entirely."
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Variety
Variety"Works its way through intriguing conundrums about the motivations and qualifications of parenthood..."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Prioritizing aesthetics over narrative, the film offers only superficial hints of a society riven by class and authoritarian politics."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Vikander turns Virginia into an unsettling tour de force of disciplined abandon."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesThe Assessment | Details
- Rating
- R16, Sex scenes, nudity, offensive language, suicide
- Runtime
- 114
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Country of origin
- Germany
