Screening Room: ‘Experimenter’

Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) and his ‘shock’ machine in ‘Experimenter’ (Magnolia)

At Yale in 1961, researcher Stanley Milgram began a long-term, wide-ranging experiment on obedience and authority that would actually—and for once, this isn’t hyperbole—shock the world with its conclusions. That’s the story of Michael Almereyda’s daring and (yes) experimental filmExperimenter, opening this week.

My reviewis atPopMatters:

[Milgram]put a volunteer in a room with an officious research assistan...