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

| Mar 25, 2020

It's a topical treatise on memory and artificial intelligence that asks how the human brain works (or doesn't).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2017

Hamm is note-perfect in the role, programmed to be charming and empathetic but prone to gaucheness when someone wrong-foots his software.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2017

... a clever and affecting meditation on memory, bereavement, love and remorse masquerading as a sci-fi movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2017

An elegant, absorbing and stimulating experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2017

A high-concept idea with a low concept approach, Marjorie Prime is cerebral, talk-driven sci-fi lit up by a compelling exploration of big ideas and across-the-board strong performances from the small cast ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2017

There is a clever idea here - that providing "memories" for a computerised being is faintly akin to re-powering failed memories in our near and dear. But the cleverness becomes chatterboxed to death.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2017

A gentle story that is no less profound for being so.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2017

[Michael] Almereyda's CV is chock-full of daring, unique directorial choices, and this film is no exception.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2017

As a sly chamber piece, it reassures and unsettles in equal, exquisitely calibrated measure.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 31, 2017

The exchanges feel slightly redundant at times. The stagey origins of the material surface occasionally. Minor bumps, though, in a unique psychological journey.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 24, 2017

The haunting and allusive Marjorie Prime is a sci-fi film set in the near future but its emotional resonance is bracingly immediate.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 23, 2017

The film, with its coastal haze and its fickle gusts of rain, is likely to lodge in your memory. Or, as it will soon be called, your hard drive.

| Aug 19, 2017

Marjorie Prime works better as a premise, and likely as a play, than as a movie-but what a premise. It's worth seeing for the questions it raises

| Aug 18, 2017

The virtues in Marjorie Prime are modest, but the muted cinematography by Sean Price Williams adds enormously to the blurred vision of reality the characters feel throughout, and the cast is first-rate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2017

A movie that leaves viewers with so much to ponder.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2017

Though visually spare and undistinguished, the movie gets revelatory mileage out of Geena Davis -- just as brainy and bruised as she was in her heyday -- as Marjorie's bitter adult daughter, in need of some postmortem therapy of her own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2017

Good as the ensemble cast is, however, Marjorie Prime is Smith's film. Watching her inspires the kind of awe one feels when looking at the brushstrokes of an artistic masterpiece.

| Aug 17, 2017

A quiet, contemplative family drama about memory. And about how those memories shape who we are.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2017

Much of the fun of Marjorie Prime is in figuring out where it's going, and why.

| Aug 17, 2017