The Assessment (2025)
Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, Himesh Patel, Indira Varma, Minnie Driver, Nicholas Pinnock, Charlotte Ritchie, Leah Harvey, Suhayla Balli Al Soufi Del Diego, Angeline Padrón Filippova
IHBM8
IMDb6.6
RT83%
Trakt69%
TMDb6.8Very good
In a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.
My review · Reviewed 05/10/2025
First and foremost, the acting is absolutely stellar in this movie. I knew that Olson was a tremendous talent and I had been looking forward to seeing Vikander some more - she did not disappoint. I might be wrong about this, but I saw the movie as a commentary on the awful process of trying to conceive a child when you need outside assistance. While the "assistance" in this movie comes in the form of the government, it still felt very much like the same process that I had gone through when trying to have a child. Anger, heartbreak, despair - it was all there at different points. If you look at it from that perspective (and I might be completely wrong), the movie (and especially the ending) work a lot better.