Marjorie Prime
FilmRise | Release Date: August 18, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
25
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 16, 2017
The sci-fi chamber drama Marjorie Prime is exquisite — beautiful, intense, shivering with empathy. Read full review
92
TheWrapClaudia PuigAug 17, 2017
Marjorie Prime is a contemplative, intimate and poetic chamber piece, superbly told and nimbly acted, with equal parts nuance and empathy. Read full review
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAug 24, 2017
Marjorie Prime, which has a soulful score by Mica Levi, is essentially a chamber drama, and yet it rarely feels stifled or stagey. Read full review
90
The New York TimesGlenn KennyAug 17, 2017
There’s more going on in this movie’s 90-plus minutes than in many summer blockbusters nearly twice its length. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 17, 2017
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. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangAug 17, 2017
Beautiful untruths and half-truths abound in Michael Almereyda’s quietly shimmering new movie. Read full review
90
Village VoiceDanny KingAug 16, 2017
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. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 28, 2017
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. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovSep 13, 2017
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. Read full review
88
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 31, 2017
As a sly chamber piece, it re­assures and unsettles in equal, exquisitely calibrated measure. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 24, 2017
Marjorie Prime sounds like the title of a British miniseries, but is in fact one of the strangest, most disturbing and most thought-provoking films of 2017. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenAug 14, 2017
Mapping the intersection between history and emotion, Michael Almereyda finds himself in Alain Resnais terrain. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 17, 2017
The most stylish thing about it is the eerie original music by Mica Levi, the art-damaged noise-popster-turned-composer who previously scored "Under The Skin" and "Jackie." Read full review
80
EmpireIan FreerNov 6, 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 (especially Smith). A treat for the brain and soul. Read full review
80
The GuardianBenjamin LeeAug 17, 2017
It’s a haunting little film that ends with a somewhat overwhelming poignancy. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 17, 2017
It’s a film that doubles and trebles in complexity as it dives inward to a place of strange intimacy, one that’s a lot like Spike Jonze’s "Her": manufactured, yes, but no less affecting for its desperation. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAnthony KaufmanJan 28, 2017
A poetic, though admittedly esoteric piece of cinema. Read full review
79
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpAug 24, 2017
It’s an exquisitely challenging production, one that calls for repeat viewings over years, all the better to persuade the film to surrender its meaning. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedAug 18, 2017
It does provide a welcome antidote to the usual surfeit of formulaic Hollywood junk. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonAug 17, 2017
Hamm perfectly plays Walter as a sort of suave, GQ version of HAL 9000, and Davis and Robbins have their most satisfying feature film roles in years. Along with the pitch-perfect Smith, they provide the humanity to Almereyda’s vision of a species in danger of slipping into the void of selective memory and loss. Read full review
75
The VergeBryan BishopFeb 8, 2017
Marjorie Prime is superbly acted, and it’s certainly interesting. Hamm strikes a wonderful balance as a talking re-creation that feels almost human, and the rest of the cast is equally nuanced. Read full review
75
The PlaylistJessica KiangFeb 2, 2017
The film might not have quite learned how to communicate visually rather than verbally, but the words are enticing ones and Sean Price Williams‘ serene, airy cinematography is fluid and varied enough that it never feels stagebound. Read full review
75
The Film StageJordan RaupJan 28, 2017
Marjorie Prime, a micro-scale sci-fi chamber drama, fascinatingly explores the perception and dissolution of what we remember throughout our lives. Read full review
70
New York Daily NewsJoe DziemianowiczAug 16, 2017
Like the play by Jordan Harrison it’s based on, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s film is small in scale, but pulls us in close with its provocative setup. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyDevan CogganAug 17, 2017
Marjorie Prime in itself feels not unlike Walter’s hologram — almost real and almost human, but not quite flesh and blood. Read full review
60
Total FilmKate StablesDec 7, 2017
Musing on memory and machine-emotion, it echoes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Her. But despite its fine portraits of loss, it never escapes its stage-play origins. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeJan 28, 2017
Though it mostly resists contrived “opening-out” devices, and preserves the decidedly low-tech visualization of the play’s sci-fi premise, Michael Almereyda’s well-cast film never finds a suitably complex cinematic language for its tangle of intellectual and emotional ideas. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandJan 28, 2017
Almereyda’s feature is rich in acting talent, but this stagey, flat drama can’t match the wattage of its leads. Read full review
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