It's a big year for movies tackling
famous experiments in
social psychology; a film adaptation
of The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by Milgram's friend, Philip Zimbardo, was released into theaters earlier this month.
The most pleasingly cerebral
of recent American films, «Experimenter» concerns Dr. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard in an expertly shaded and intelligent performance), the creator
of certain enduringly
famous experiments in
social psychology, which the film starts out by showing us.