This movie seems a radical step for Almereyda, and more attentive to the nature of the medium than anything he has attempted before.

| Nov 6, 2024

[Director Michael] Almereyda wants us to be aware that this is a fiction even as he explores the ideas with great intelligence and the life of Milgram with curiosity.

| May 6, 2023

This career overview is the surface text of Experimenter, and it’s a fascinating one; what’s going on formally is even more interesting.

| Jan 23, 2023

The result may leave some viewers emotionally cold toward the material, but our intellect is engaged in the engrossing subject and the absorbing way it was made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 3, 2022

A noble attempt, but fails to put its finger on the unexplainable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2021

What writer/director Michael Almereyda manages to create with Experimenter is an interesting look at the way Milgram's experiments worked through the eyes of cinema.

| Apr 4, 2020

A perfect blend of performance art, cinema and the science of psychology, the result is thought-provoking, profound, and beyond intelligently entertaining.

| Nov 29, 2019

Almereyda's direction is nothing short of brilliant here in the way it channels the spirit of Milgram into its own conception.

| Jun 3, 2019

Bland and monotonous, Experimenter is certainly a forgettable film.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 5, 2019

It's a strange, unsettling, but almost playful experience watching Sarsgaard watch us. It's this mischievousness that makes the film, one of the more unique, oddly entertaining things you'll find at the cinema this fall.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Feb 28, 2019

The film works better when crafting its own experiments in social embarrassment, such as the scene where Milgram argues about his work with an Abe Lincoln impersonator, as opposed to the stuffy book report that dominates the final hour.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 5, 2019

A fascinating, provocative film about movies and illusion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2018

Experimenter jumps from one style to another so much we don't know what world it's really set in.

| Aug 14, 2017

A traditional biopic about Milgram played by a perfect Peter Sarsgaard, between melancholy and boredom. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 12, 2017

Experimenter is not only an inventive exploration of the life and personality of an offbeat and perhaps misunderstood intellectual; it is also an exposition of his relentlessly probing mind and jarring revelations.

| Dec 9, 2016

Slight but intellectually entertaining.

| Dec 4, 2016

You'll find yourself wondering if PBS has a documentary you could watch instead (at least then you'll feel smarter).

| Oct 5, 2016

Tries to avoid the cliches of biopics but lacks spark and cleverness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2016

... one of the best and most overlooked films of the year ...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 31, 2016

It is rather encouraging to see a film as ambitiously cerebral as Experimenter let loose in theaters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2016