Critic Reviews

The sci-fi chamber drama Marjorie Prime is exquisite — beautiful, intense, shivering with empathy.

Marjorie Prime is a contemplative, intimate and poetic chamber piece, superbly told and nimbly acted, with equal parts nuance and empathy.

Marjorie Prime, which has a soulful score by Mica Levi, is essentially a chamber drama, and yet it rarely feels stifled or stagey.

Even at its most sorrowful, Marjorie Prime is suffused with warmth, the core of it emanating from Smith in two complementary iterations of the same character.

Leave it to Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) to make a science fiction movie that consists of little more than scenes of two characters talking in plushly appointed living rooms.

Beautiful untruths and half-truths abound in Michael Almereyda’s quietly shimmering new movie.

Much of the fun of Marjorie Prime is in figuring out where it’s going, and why. It would be shameful to reveal much more of the journey save to say that the people who make it do a splendid job.

There’s more going on in this movie’s 90-plus minutes than in many summer blockbusters nearly twice its length.

It’s this hunger for the entirety of a person’s life that makes Marjorie Prime one of the most riveting, moving films of the year.

Mapping the intersection between history and emotion, Michael Almereyda finds himself in Alain Resnais terrain.