The Assessment

[Fleur Fortuné's] film feels icily disengaged from other people's ideas, pondering them at a remove – as an opportunity for the actors, a costume brief, a means to an end.

Written by Mrs & Mr Thomas (aka Nell Garfath-Cox and Dave Thomas), the film starts from a sharply focused premise, before turning increasingly wayward; it ends up feeling like a Black Mirror episode extended long beyond its punchline.

Vikander, perhaps recognizing how tantalizingly different this type of role is for her, turns Virginia into an unsettling tour de force of disciplined abandon.

A provocative and sometimes squirm-inducingly funny sci-fi that gives its three leads lots of juicy material to chew on, with Vikander, in particular, turning her Virginia into a compellingly inscrutable, but not entirely unsympathetic, antagonist.

The first feature from [Fleur Fortuné] has a ton of style, and signals from the beginning her confident use of framing, texture and color.

Prioritizing aesthetics over narrative, the film offers only superficial hints of a society riven by class and authoritarian politics.

The film feels at times too schematic, focused on generating predictable shocks. The surprise fades as the strange becomes predictably perverse...[Full review in Spanish]

French music video director Fleur Fortune has made a memorable movie debut.

If it had been twenty minutes shorter, the film would be a lot better, but this is still a cracking feature debut by director Fleur Fortune.

The Assessment is a movie based on what someone thinks children are like but has absolutely zero experience with children.