The Assessment
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: March 21, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 28, 2025
As with a lot of filmmakers transitioning to long-form narrative after success with bite-sized flash, “The Assessment” is a commanding mood piece until our thirst for deeper emotional and thematic resonance reveals its shortcomings. Read full review
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The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 20, 2025
A sterile drama about state-controlled procreation, “The Assessment,” the first feature from the French director Fleur Fortuné, is visually stark and emotionally chilling. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 19, 2024
The Assessment, directed by Fleur Fortuné, is conceptually sound and looks incredible, but while it’s psychologically involved and provoking, it doesn’t go beyond the surface of its ideas. Read full review
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TheWrapSteve PondSep 13, 2024
There are things to admire in the visual design and in the way a small group of accomplished actors submit to this quiet horror show, but cold, begrudging admiration is about all the admittedly stylish film is designed to elicit. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeSep 13, 2024
At its best, The Assessment smartly taps into and maintains its focus on the near universal anxiety about parenting in a world made increasingly uninhabitable by overconsumption and climate change. But the film loses its way when it widens its scope and tries to incorporate eleventh-hour world-building. Read full review
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The PlaylistGregory EllwoodSep 13, 2024
Sure, Vikander and Olsen are superb as Mia has to constantly stop herself from wringing Virginia’s neck, but the whole endeavor increasingly feels flat. Read full review
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Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 13, 2024
The picture has been worked out on a visual level — the immaculately sterile images evoke a future in which life’s pleasures, like having a family, have been wiped clean — but the script never explores those deeper themes. Read full review
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The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 8, 2025
There’s a kernel of philosophical intrigue in The Assessment, encased in a sleek shell of dystopian science fiction, and unfortunately flung a million miles away from audience engagement. Read full review
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