The film never, even for an instance, forgets its roots in a play...the compelling nature of this cinematic take on a play is...lost somewhere between the film’s musical score and its debates on the best dog breed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2024

While I’m not necessarily hypnotized by sci-fi themes and, uh, “meditations on memory,” I’m very interested in whatever Almereyda does...

| Jan 11, 2023

Marjorie Prime is a movie about memory but it's also a movie about identity, arguing convincingly eloquently that the two are synonyms.

| Dec 11, 2020

Captivating, haunting, and ultimately quite moving.

| May 12, 2020

Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) directed, honoring the play's quiet solemnity and carefully crafted dialogue.

| Mar 25, 2020

A captivating work that unfolds like wisps of memory, desperately looking to the past for answers, companionship, common experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Marjorie Prime leans heavily on its source material and performers. It's a great shame, then, that the intriguing premise, though not quite squandered, falls short of its promise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2019

The acting performances are all excellent. However, the film shows its origins as a stage play, scarcely opening out from its single, soulless location.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2018

The film is saved by the acting (which is largely fantastic), Mica Levi's haunting score, and the ... ending, which is the only time I feel Marjorie Prime takes the risks it needs to come alive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2018

Marjorie Prime is indeed flawed like memory, but its depiction of a society that uses technology to fend off loneliness is quietly wrenching.

| Aug 27, 2018

Marjorie Prime grapples with death, guilt, trust, trauma, creation and communication by listening carefully to confessions of the spirit.

| Aug 21, 2018

Writer/director Michael Almereyda manages to do justice to material that was widely revered on the stage, leaving it feeling equally intimate on screen despite various cinematic qualities.

| May 9, 2018

Marjorie Prime is adapted from stage to screen with such a lack of creativity, ingenuity, or re-imagination that I'm almost offended.

| Apr 26, 2018

One of those strange occasions when a film conceived in such a cerebral manner and with such a cold theme is able to touch your heart and shake your soul... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2018

2017's premier example of the concept-heavy indie sci-fi.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2018

Instead, it is one of those prize indies that spools out and grows in your head for days afterwards.

| Jan 2, 2018

At times a pretentious and unnecessarily heady, Almereyda's film uses grief robots as a way to examine anxieties about mortality and familial love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2017

Set in the not-too-distant future, Marjorie Prime leverages plausible computer technology to explore the very human nature of life, death, family and memory.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 1, 2017

Curiously wonderful sci-fi film about memory.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 26, 2017

Matching the mannerisms of theater with the clarity of a close-up, the heart-aching Marjorie Prime raises essential questions about memory, loss, and technology...

| Nov 25, 2017