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Movie ID: 1469
RT slug: marjorie_prime
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marjorie_prime
Release year: 2017
Runtime: 99 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2017-08-18
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2017-10-02
Tomatometer final: 89%
Audience score final: 61%
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Directors: Michael Almereyda
Writers: Michael Almereyda
Producers: Uri Singer
MPAA rating: —
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-10-13 20:02:33
Updated: 2026-10-13 20:02:33
Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's Prime relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past.
Intimate in setting yet ambitious in scope, the beautifully acted Marjorie Prime poses thought-provoking questions about memory, humanity, and love.
Canonical reviews: 93
Canonical fresh: 83
Canonical rotten: 10
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 93 (83/10), 89% (89.247% raw)
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-10-12 22:42:30
Snapshot Tomatometer: 89%
Snapshot review count: 93
Snapshot fresh count: 83
Snapshot rotten count: 10
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #4531 (full_snapshot)
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| BB Film Productions | production |
| Passage Pictures (II) | production |
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| 1 | Geena Davis | Tess |
| 2 | Lois Smith | Marjorie |
| 3 | Jon Hamm | Walter |
| 4 | Tim Robbins | Jon |
| 5 | Stephanie Andujar | Julie |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 288688 | Diana Tuova | Spotlight on Film | Rotten | 3/5 | 2024-08-04T22:40:40.000Z | 2024-08-04 22:40:40 | The film never, even for an instance, forgets its roots in a play...the compelling nature of this cinematic take on a play is...lost somewhere between the film’s musical score and its debates on the best dog breed. |
| 288689 | Vadim Rizov | Filmmaker Magazine | Fresh | — | 2023-01-11T22:32:30.000Z | 2023-01-11 22:32:30 | While I’m not necessarily hypnotized by sci-fi themes and, uh, “meditations on memory,” I’m very interested in whatever Almereyda does... |
| 288690 | David Bax | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2020-12-11T01:04:40.000Z | 2020-12-11 01:04:40 | Marjorie Prime is a movie about memory but it's also a movie about identity, arguing convincingly eloquently that the two are synonyms. |
| 288691 | Steven Prokopy | Third Coast Review | Fresh | — | 2020-05-12T20:01:11.000Z | 2020-05-12 20:01:11 | Captivating, haunting, and ultimately quite moving. |
| 288692 | J. R. Jones | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2020-03-25T23:52:19.000Z | 2020-03-25 23:52:19 | Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) directed, honoring the play's quiet solemnity and carefully crafted dialogue. |
| 288693 | Ellie Lucas | From the Front Row | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2019-06-04T19:07:54.000Z | 2019-06-04 19:07:54 | A captivating work that unfolds like wisps of memory, desperately looking to the past for answers, companionship, common experience. |
| 288694 | Rachel Brook | One Room With A View | Fresh | 3/5 | 2019-02-21T20:46:13.000Z | 2019-02-21 20:46:13 | Marjorie Prime leans heavily on its source material and performers. It's a great shame, then, that the intriguing premise, though not quite squandered, falls short of its promise. |
| 288695 | Alexa Dalby | Dog and Wolf | Fresh | 3/5 | 2018-10-17T23:54:32.000Z | 2018-10-17 23:54:32 | The acting performances are all excellent. However, the film shows its origins as a stage play, scarcely opening out from its single, soulless location. |
| 288696 | Tomas Trussow | The Lonely Film Critic | Fresh | 3/5 | 2018-10-05T05:11:18.000Z | 2018-10-05 05:11:18 | The film is saved by the acting (which is largely fantastic), Mica Levi's haunting score, and the ... ending, which is the only time I feel Marjorie Prime takes the risks it needs to come alive. |
| 288697 | Pat Padua | DCist | Fresh | — | 2018-08-27T19:42:35.000Z | 2018-08-27 19:42:35 | Marjorie Prime is indeed flawed like memory, but its depiction of a society that uses technology to fend off loneliness is quietly wrenching. |
| 288698 | Glenn Heath Jr. | San Diego CityBeat | Fresh | — | 2018-08-21T00:28:41.000Z | 2018-08-21 00:28:41 | Marjorie Prime grapples with death, guilt, trust, trauma, creation and communication by listening carefully to confessions of the spirit. |
| 288699 | Alistair Ryder | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2018-05-09T09:55:14.000Z | 2018-05-09 09:55:14 | Writer/director Michael Almereyda manages to do justice to material that was widely revered on the stage, leaving it feeling equally intimate on screen despite various cinematic qualities. |
| 288700 | Max Bentovim | Brightest Young Things | Rotten | — | 2018-04-26T22:17:57.000Z | 2018-04-26 22:17:57 | Marjorie Prime is adapted from stage to screen with such a lack of creativity, ingenuity, or re-imagination that I'm almost offended. |
| 288701 | José Martín | El antepenúltimo mohicano | Fresh | 4/5 | 2018-02-14T20:40:44.000Z | 2018-02-14 20:40:44 | One of those strange occasions when a film conceived in such a cerebral manner and with such a cold theme is able to touch your heart and shake your soul... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 288702 | Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending | Fresh | 4/5 | 2018-01-15T02:05:25.000Z | 2018-01-15 02:05:25 | 2017's premier example of the concept-heavy indie sci-fi. |
| 288703 | Michael Atkinson | The Progressive | Fresh | — | 2018-01-02T23:15:45.000Z | 2018-01-02 23:15:45 | Instead, it is one of those prize indies that spools out and grows in your head for days afterwards. |
| 288704 | Cricket Epstein | Bust Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-12-19T18:32:49.000Z | 2017-12-19 18:32:49 | At times a pretentious and unnecessarily heady, Almereyda's film uses grief robots as a way to examine anxieties about mortality and familial love. |
| 288705 | Alexandra MacAaron | Women's Voices for Change | Fresh | 9/10 | 2017-12-01T12:06:48.000Z | 2017-12-01 12:06:48 | Set in the not-too-distant future, Marjorie Prime leverages plausible computer technology to explore the very human nature of life, death, family and memory. |
| 288706 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | A- | 2017-11-26T08:11:31.000Z | 2017-11-26 08:11:31 | Curiously wonderful sci-fi film about memory. |
| 288707 | Matt Patches | Thrillist | Fresh | — | 2017-11-25T13:47:05.000Z | 2017-11-25 13:47:05 | Matching the mannerisms of theater with the clarity of a close-up, the heart-aching Marjorie Prime raises essential questions about memory, loss, and technology... |
| 288708 | Jeffrey Lyles | Lyles' Movie Files | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2017-11-25T05:55:10.000Z | 2017-11-25 05:55:10 | An exceptional, thought-provoking film featuring some of 2017's best performances. This truly deserves to be remembered come year-end award time. |
| 288709 | Edward Porter | Sunday Times (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2017-11-13T02:15:53.000Z | 2017-11-13 02:15:53 | The film doesn't have enough layers to justify its length. It masks the fact that it comes from a play, but only by conforming to a bland type of arty indie cinema. |
| 288710 | Matthew Bond | The Mail on Sunday (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-13T02:10:55.000Z | 2017-11-13 02:10:55 | Michael Almereyda's thought-provoking picture Marjorie Prime is well acted by a cast that includes John Hamm, Tim Robbins and Geena Davis. |
| 288711 | Danielle Solzman | Solzy at the Movies | Fresh | — | 2017-11-12T20:53:01.000Z | 2017-11-12 20:53:01 | ...a really good film that explores some thought-provoking questions |
| 288712 | Roe McDermott | Hot Press | Fresh | 6/10 | 2017-11-10T18:40:54.000Z | 2017-11-10 18:40:54 | This sense of artifice highlights awkward contrivances and melodramatic plot developments. But Marjorie Prime still feels like an important addition to the canon of movies that grapple with intimacy and technology. |
| 288713 | Charlotte O'Sullivan | London Evening Standard | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-10T11:20:57.000Z | 2017-11-10 11:20:57 | It's a topical treatise on memory and artificial intelligence that asks how the human brain works (or doesn't). |
| 288714 | Allan Hunter | Daily Express (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-10T11:10:54.000Z | 2017-11-10 11:10:54 | A haunting, quietly poignant tale with a wonderful performance from veteran character actress Lois Smith. |
| 288715 | Alistair Harkness | Scotsman | Rotten | 3/5 | 2017-11-10T01:04:29.000Z | 2017-11-10 01:04:29 | More provocative in concept than execution. |
| 288716 | Ed Potton | The Times (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-10T00:12:51.000Z | 2017-11-10 00:12:51 | Hamm is note-perfect in the role, programmed to be charming and empathetic but prone to gaucheness when someone wrong-foots his software. |
| 288717 | Geoffrey Macnab | Independent (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-09T19:27:23.000Z | 2017-11-09 19:27:23 | ... a clever and affecting meditation on memory, bereavement, love and remorse masquerading as a sci-fi movie. |
| 288718 | Philip Concannon | Little White Lies | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-07T21:26:27.000Z | 2017-11-07 21:26:27 | An elegant, absorbing and stimulating experience. |
| 288719 | Kevin Harley | The List | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-06T20:51:31.000Z | 2017-11-06 20:51:31 | Couching universal themes in achingly human specifics, Almereyda's adaptation of Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play locks in on four veteran leads to pinpoint every nuance. |
| 288720 | Kate Stables | Total Film | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-11-06T11:32:25.000Z | 2017-11-06 11:32:25 | A chilly, elegant and thought-provoking futuristic family drama ... |
| 288721 | Ian Freer | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-06T11:27:23.000Z | 2017-11-06 11:27:23 | 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 ... |
| 288722 | Shelagh Rowan-Legg | ScreenAnarchy | Fresh | — | 2017-11-05T17:45:07.000Z | 2017-11-05 17:45:07 | Marjorie Prime is a rare, conversation film that still demands to be seen on the big screen, to fully appreciate its performances and its subtle power |
| 288723 | Jamie Dunn | The Skinny | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-11-02T11:21:00.000Z | 2017-11-02 11:21:00 | Imagine Blade Runner 2049 on a microbudget or Black Mirror with a turbocharged IQ, and you'll get something close to this soulful and quietly moving sci-fi. |
| 288724 | Nigel Andrews | Financial Times | Rotten | 3/5 | 2017-11-01T17:31:00.000Z | 2017-11-01 17:31:00 | There is a clever idea here - that providing "memories" for a computerised being is faintly akin to re-powering failed memories in our near and dear. But the cleverness becomes chatterboxed to death. |
| 288725 | Sean P. Means | Salt Lake Tribune | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2017-10-05T22:34:21.000Z | 2017-10-05 22:34:21 | Almereyda doesn't stray far from the story's stage roots, so the emphasis is on dialogue and performance. The discussions are smart, sharp and insightful, raising important questions. |
| 288726 | Matthew Lickona | San Diego Reader | Fresh | 2/5 | 2017-09-22T19:49:34.000Z | 2017-09-22 19:49:34 | A gentle story that is no less profound for being so. |
| 288727 | Mary Ann Brussat | Spirituality & Practice | Fresh | 5/5 | 2017-09-14T20:56:24.000Z | 2017-09-14 20:56:24 | An inventive and thought-provoking sci-fi film about memory, mortality, family, and technology. |
| 288728 | Marc Savlov | Austin Chronicle | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-09-14T16:00:42.000Z | 2017-09-14 16:00:42 | [Michael] Almereyda's CV is chock-full of daring, unique directorial choices, and this film is no exception. |
| 288729 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Rotten | — | 2017-09-08T22:42:51.000Z | 2017-09-08 22:42:51 | ... a low-key meditation on grief and the power of memories that winds up feeling more manipulative than sincere. |
| 288730 | Elias Savada | Film International | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-09-01T20:53:16.000Z | 2017-09-01 20:53:16 | Marjorie Prime is an impressive accomplishment, especially when you factor in the meager 13-day shooting schedule. |
| 288731 | Alan Zilberman | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2017-09-01T16:57:06.000Z | 2017-09-01 16:57:06 | Marjorie Prime will undoubtedly mean something specific to everyone who sees it. |
| 288732 | Ann Hornaday | Washington Post | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2017-08-31T16:20:44.000Z | 2017-08-31 16:20:44 | As a sly chamber piece, it reassures and unsettles in equal, exquisitely calibrated measure. |
| 288733 | Alex Lines | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2017-08-29T09:00:20.000Z | 2017-08-29 09:00:20 | Thoughtful and original pictures like Marjorie Prime should be watched in this current climate, but a cinematic viewing is not necessary. |
| 288734 | Michael Ordoña | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-08-28T17:21:54.000Z | 2017-08-28 17:21:54 | Slow, poetic exploration of memory, loss in sci-fi setting. |
| 288735 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 2/4 | 2017-08-25T05:20:13.000Z | 2017-08-25 05:20:13 | Almereyda favors a general air of loss and regret. |
| 288736 | Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2017-08-24T16:20:28.000Z | 2017-08-24 16:20:28 | The exchanges feel slightly redundant at times. The stagey origins of the material surface occasionally. Minor bumps, though, in a unique psychological journey. |
| 288737 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Fresh | B | 2017-08-24T01:56:03.000Z | 2017-08-24 01:56:03 | Hardly a rousing crowd-pleaser, but it is a quietly affecting rumination on memory and loss that will touch those willing to watch and listen attentively. |
| 288738 | Peter Rainer | Christian Science Monitor | Fresh | A- | 2017-08-23T19:25:57.000Z | 2017-08-23 19:25:57 | The haunting and allusive Marjorie Prime is a sci-fi film set in the near future but its emotional resonance is bracingly immediate. |
| 288739 | Andy Crump | Paste Magazine | Fresh | 7.9/10 | 2017-08-22T15:30:16.000Z | 2017-08-22 15:30:16 | Marjorie Prime tackles the vastness of our existence in short form, wrapping inquiries of cosmic proportions inside of an intimate, deeply personal narrative that essentially functions as a relay race where death is the baton. |
| 288741 | David Noh | Film Journal International | Fresh | — | 2017-08-19T19:55:17.000Z | 2017-08-19 19:55:17 | Marjorie Prime's greatest value ... is in Smith's performance. |
| 288740 | Austin Trunick | Under the Radar | Fresh | 9/10 | 2017-08-19T19:55:17.000Z | 2017-08-19 19:55:17 | Raising interesting questions about the growing role tech plays in our lives, Marjorie Prime is an incredibly thought-provoking piece of speculative fiction. |
| 288743 | Anthony Lane | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2017-08-19T19:55:16.000Z | 2017-08-19 19:55:16 | The film, with its coastal haze and its fickle gusts of rain, is likely to lodge in your memory. Or, as it will soon be called, your hard drive. |
| 288742 | Tim Appelo | AARP Movies for Grownups | Fresh | 5/5 | 2017-08-19T19:55:16.000Z | 2017-08-19 19:55:16 | For everyone who has urgent unfinished business with somebody, or fears of dementia, or of being a caretaker, this movie has something to say. |
| 288744 | K. Austin Collins | The Ringer | Fresh | — | 2017-08-18T19:50:49.000Z | 2017-08-18 19:50:49 | Marjorie Prime works better as a premise, and likely as a play, than as a movie-but what a premise. It's worth seeing for the questions it raises |
| 288745 | Nora Lee Mandel | Maven's Nest | Fresh | 7/10 | 2017-08-18T19:30:46.000Z | 2017-08-18 19:30:46 | Smith's changes of affect are marvelous. More intellectual than emotional, this is perfect for open-ended post-screening discussions. How would your family deal with your AI? |
| 288746 | Rex Reed | Observer | Fresh | 3/4 | 2017-08-18T18:30:51.000Z | 2017-08-18 18:30:51 | The virtues in Marjorie Prime are modest, but the muted cinematography by Sean Price Williams adds enormously to the blurred vision of reality the characters feel throughout, and the cast is first-rate. |
| 288747 | Bradley Gibson | Film Threat | Fresh | 7/10 | 2017-08-18T16:40:34.000Z | 2017-08-18 16:40:34 | This artfully crafted human story of emotional interaction with technology is a thoughtfully astute study of family, companionship, death, memory, and meaning. |
| 288748 | Godfrey Cheshire | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2017-08-18T15:25:31.000Z | 2017-08-18 15:25:31 | A movie that leaves viewers with so much to ponder. |
| 288749 | Sean Burns | WBUR’s Arts & Culture | Fresh | — | 2017-08-18T12:55:23.000Z | 2017-08-18 12:55:23 | It's a marvelous piece of writing, smart and funny with even the most casual conversations ping-ponging back to the film's slippery central questions about the malleability of memory. |
| 288750 | Joshua Rothkopf | Time Out | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-08-18T00:06:22.000Z | 2017-08-18 00:06:22 | Though visually spare and undistinguished, the movie gets revelatory mileage out of Geena Davis -- just as brainy and bruised as she was in her heyday -- as Marjorie's bitter adult daughter, in need of some postmortem therapy of her own. |
| 288751 | Claudia Puig | TheWrap | Fresh | — | 2017-08-17T23:11:22.000Z | 2017-08-17 23:11:22 | Good as the ensemble cast is, however, Marjorie Prime is Smith's film. Watching her inspires the kind of awe one feels when looking at the brushstrokes of an artistic masterpiece. |
| 288752 | Devan Coggan | Entertainment Weekly | Fresh | B- | 2017-08-17T21:36:49.000Z | 2017-08-17 21:36:49 | A quiet, contemplative family drama about memory. And about how those memories shape who we are. |
| 288753 | John Anderson | Wall Street Journal | Fresh | — | 2017-08-17T20:36:37.000Z | 2017-08-17 20:36:37 | Much of the fun of Marjorie Prime is in figuring out where it's going, and why. |
| 288754 | Glenn Kenny | New York Times | Fresh | — | 2017-08-17T19:59:22.000Z | 2017-08-17 19:59:22 | There's more going on in this movie's 90-plus minutes than in many summer blockbusters nearly twice its length. |
| 288755 | Sherilyn Connelly | SF Weekly | Fresh | — | 2017-08-17T18:56:54.000Z | 2017-08-17 18:56:54 | Marjorie Prime is ultimately more about its ideas than its characters, but that's OK, because they're fascinating ideas. |
| 288756 | Justin Chang | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | — | 2017-08-17T18:01:44.000Z | 2017-08-17 18:01:44 | A seamless, unshowy weave of chamber piece and speculative fiction; at times it suggests a lo-fi companion piece to Spike Jonze's "Her" or perhaps an unusually soothing episode of "Black Mirror." |
| 288757 | Jordan Hoffman | Vanity Fair | Fresh | — | 2017-08-17T17:36:41.000Z | 2017-08-17 17:36:41 | Marjorie Prime is very much a chamber piece with flashes of cinematic brilliance. |
| 288758 | Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | AV Club | Fresh | B+ | 2017-08-17T16:36:08.000Z | 2017-08-17 16:36:08 | The movie lacks ostentation; it appears so simple and unworldly and unhip that one wants to protect it. |
| 288759 | Danny King | Village Voice | Fresh | — | 2017-08-16T19:55:50.000Z | 2017-08-16 19:55:50 | Leave it to Michael Almereyda to make a science fiction movie that consists of little more than scenes of two characters talking in plushly appointed living rooms. |
| 288760 | G. Allen Johnson | San Francisco Chronicle | Fresh | 3/4 | 2017-08-16T19:45:50.000Z | 2017-08-16 19:45:50 | 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. |
| 288761 | Joe Dziemianowicz | New York Daily News | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2017-08-16T16:10:17.000Z | 2017-08-16 16:10:17 | 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. |
| 288762 | David Edelstein | New York Magazine/Vulture | Fresh | — | 2017-08-15T12:20:10.000Z | 2017-08-15 12:20:10 | Marjorie Prime is exquisite - beautiful, intense, shivering with empathy. |
| 288763 | Benjamin Lee | Guardian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-08-15T12:10:08.000Z | 2017-08-15 12:10:08 | This is a small film, largely set in just one location, yet its thoughtful meditation on how we construct our relationships and our lives through a frequently unreliable lens of our own making is of universal significance. |
| 288764 | Chuck Bowen | Slant Magazine | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2017-08-14T16:40:07.000Z | 2017-08-14 16:40:07 | Mapping the intersection between history and emotion, Michael Almereyda finds himself in Alain Resnais terrain. |
| 288765 | Alex Arabian | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2017-07-20T03:45:20.000Z | 2017-07-20 03:45:20 | With nuance and an introspective eye, Almereyda creates a beautifully bleak, hypnagogic world in Marjorie Prime that allows its pensive themes to flourish. |
| 288766 | Ella Taylor | Film Comment Magazine | Fresh | — | 2017-07-11T18:30:29.000Z | 2017-07-11 18:30:29 | Whether someday soon we will all need our own Primes is one of the questions this likable but slightly anodyne movie raises yet doesn't really run with...Almereyda, expertly juggling the tonal shifts between mordant and elegiac, keeps the faith. |
| 288767 | Alex Heeney | Seventh Row | Rotten | — | 2017-06-30T00:40:49.000Z | 2017-06-30 00:40:49 | Michael Almereyda's screen adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize nominated play Marjorie Prime never sheds its theatrical origins and fails to find new insights as a film. |
| 288768 | Josh Slater-Williams | SciFiNow | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-06-05T15:33:07.000Z | 2017-06-05 15:33:07 | Memory is the central theme of Marjorie Prime, a claustrophobic chamber drama with a neat sci-fi hook. |
| 288769 | Linda Marric | HeyUGuys | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-06-05T06:36:38.000Z | 2017-06-05 06:36:38 | This may not be to everyone's liking and can seem a little too wordy if you are unwilling to jump on board, but the film is nevertheless one of the most uncompromisingly intelligent pieces of filmmaking you are likely to come across this year. |
| 288770 | Jessica Kiang | The Playlist | Fresh | B | 2017-02-02T13:54:12.000Z | 2017-02-02 13:54:12 | Within its narrow field of vision, the film does bore deep, right through the more obvious strata to the farther, rarer questions seldom asked regarding our relationship to memory - not just what we remember and why, but who we are remembering for. |
| 288771 | Amber Wilkinson | Eye for Film | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-02-02T01:37:05.000Z | 2017-02-02 01:37:05 | The narrative depth also accrues gently, like sedimentary layers, as the film progresses, looking deceptively slight at first but gradually building into something more profound. |
| 288772 | Jason Bailey | Flavorwire | Fresh | — | 2017-01-30T20:04:10.000Z | 2017-01-30 20:04:10 | It's not an easy movie to engage with - the antiseptic settings and anthropological approach can keep the viewer at a distance. But those who can tune in to its wavelength will find it strangely satisfying. |
| 288773 | Kate Erbland | IndieWire | Rotten | C+ | 2017-01-26T13:44:21.000Z | 2017-01-26 13:44:21 | Marjorie Prime feels less true at every turn. |
| 288774 | Scott Beggs | Nerdist | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2017-01-26T13:43:01.000Z | 2017-01-26 13:43:01 | A fascinatingly humane concept deprived of its full potential impact. |
| 288775 | Meredith Borders | Birth.Movies.Death. | Fresh | — | 2017-01-25T15:25:12.000Z | 2017-01-25 15:25:12 | As much a small story about family and loss as it a grand discourse on human recollection. |
| 288776 | Bryan Bishop | The Verge | Fresh | — | 2017-01-25T14:00:42.000Z | 2017-01-25 14:00:42 | 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. |
| 288777 | Jordan Raup | The Film Stage | Fresh | B | 2017-01-25T12:11:05.000Z | 2017-01-25 12:11:05 | Fascinatingly explores the perception and dissolution of what we remember throughout our lives. |
| 288778 | Guy Lodge | Variety | Fresh | — | 2017-01-24T12:59:31.000Z | 2017-01-24 12:59:31 | One leaves "Marjorie Prime" pleased to have witnessed these actors at work, and rather wishing you'd got to see them tackle this intimate piece in a warmer, flesh-and-blood theatrical context. |
| 288779 | David Rooney | The Hollywood Reporter | Fresh | — | 2017-01-24T10:00:07.000Z | 2017-01-24 10:00:07 | This is the rare recent stage-to-screen adaptation that actually improves on the source. |
| 288780 | Anthony Kaufman | Screen International | Fresh | — | 2017-01-24T09:59:21.000Z | 2017-01-24 09:59:21 | Marjorie Prime is both a sophisticated chamber drama and a captivating contemplation of time, memory and mortality. |
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