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Based on the real-life research of Dr. Zimbardo, The Stanford Prison Experiment is a dramatic period piece that remains relevant over 40 years later. Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

Genre:

Thriller, Drama

Actors:

Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Moises Arias, Nicholas Braun, Gaius Charles, Keir Gilchrist, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Mann, Ezra Miller, Logan Miller, Tye Sheridan, ...»

Director:

Kyle Patrick Alvarez

Country:

United States

Release:

2015

IMDb:

6.8

Quality:

Duration:

122 min

Tom Long

This is not an uplifting movie, and its progress can be grueling. But it has a lot to say about how we let roles define us, how fragile personalities are and how context shapes reality.

August 07, 2015

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Alistair Harkness

Cranking up the tension by gradually moving his camera in closer and closer to his actors, Alvarez smartly shrinks the distance between them and us in order to intensify the what-would-you-do? discomfort the experiment was designed to explore.

June 12, 2016

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Kate Stables

Authentically tense and sweatily claustrophobic.

December 27, 2016

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Richard Roeper

The Stanford Prison Experiment is the kind of movie that raises as many questions as it answers. It's also the kind of film where you want to budget some time for discussion afterward. You won't be able to shake this one off easily.

August 14, 2015

Rich Cline

Based on real events, this sharply well-made film shifts from a rather light-hearted comedy into a horrific thriller. And it feels unnervingly natural as it does so.

June 17, 2016

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J. R. Jones

Billy Crudup gives a fine performance as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who engineered the whole thing and was then pulled into his own power trip.

July 30, 2015

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Sonny Bunch

Crudup excels as Zimbardo, casually sliding into the role of evil prison boss so subtly that we almost don't realize what's happening.

July 14, 2016

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Matthew Lickona

The film works hard to keep up the suspense: how far will the guards go? How much can the prisoners take? At what point, if any, will Zimbardo and his team intervene? And is his experiment scientific? Objective? Humane? Worthwhile?

July 31, 2015

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Molly Eichel

Watching these young men brutalize each other is troubling enough, but perhaps the film's most interesting angle is how the experiment changes more than its subjects.

July 30, 2015

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David Jenkins

The film runs out of steam by about the half way mark, where matters of unequivocally passed through the gates of Hell.

June 10, 2016

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Tara Brady

Crudup's Zimbardo shifts from ruthlessness to panic, but that shift isn't nearly as marked as what we observe among his subjects.

August 09, 2016

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Brad Wheeler

The acting is uniformly strong and the camera work is winningly claustrophobic, but the film is one note: scene after scene of bullying.

September 25, 2015

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