| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The movie's central premise -- is well supported in a film whose strength is in its close-ups on characters and its ability to put the viewer in the cell with them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2002

Probably it's more action film than anything else, but has enough insight to be of interest to serious filmgoers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2002

What impressed me is how effective the movie was, even though the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2002

An R-rated version of Survivor, Big Brother or any number of reality-온라인카지노추천 shows that present voyeurism as entertainment and exploitation as insight.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2002

Das Experiment may make an obvious point, but it's still a relevant one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

In the end, it looks as if this experiment proves only one thing: People forced to play guards and prisoners tend to end up imitating bad prison movies.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2002

A harrowing study of the corrosive effects of absolute power.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2002

Even when playing a bad-boy archetype, Bleibtreu is an enormously charismatic actor who grabs the audience and runs with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2002

It is in the camera details rather than the grand design that Das Experiment excels.

| Oct 2, 2002

Too many flaws, too many holes in the plot.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2002

Excels at building tension to an almost-unbearable point.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2002

Hirschbiegel has given narrative form to man's inhumanity to man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2002

As it goes into the final turn and is headed for home, it mysteriously runs right off the rails, and Hirschbiegel seems happy to let the whole thing spin wildly out of control.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2002

Rigid, airless, and browbeatingly repetitive, Das Experiment is an overly didactic piece of thesis hectoring.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 27, 2002

At once simplistic and compelling in a trashy sort of way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 26, 2002

The cat-and-mouse game proceeds along conventional lines; the plot is full of holes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2002

It's empty calories trying to trumpet its bogus nutritional value, and the strain for social importance undermines the picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2002