The Assessment

"Would you pass?"

2025 1h 54m EN

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6.8

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★6.8TMDB · 493

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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.

“Would you pass?”

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Cast

Elizabeth Olsen
Mia
Alicia Vikander
Virginia
Himesh Patel
Aaryan
Indira Varma
Ambika
Minnie Driver
Evie
Nicholas Pinnock
Walter
Charlotte Ritchie
Serena
Leah Harvey
Holly

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Fleur Fortuné
Writers: Nell Garfath-Cox, John Donnelly, Dave Thomas
Languages: English
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America

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MONEY

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Earned back only 3% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released last year.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Fleur Fortuné, shot by Magnus Nordenhof Jønck. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Yorgos Lamprinos shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Would you pass?".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Fleur Fortuné directs. Magnus Nordenhof Jønck behind the camera. Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch scores. Yorgos Lamprinos cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Earned back only 3% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
2Released last year.
3International production across 3 countries: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America.
4Directed by Fleur Fortuné, shot by Magnus Nordenhof Jønck. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Yorgos Lamprinos shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Would you pass?".
9IMDB entry: tt32768323 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 9 themes, including "virtual reality", "dystopia", "desire to have children", "dyslexic".

The technical file

Cinematography: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck
Original score: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Editing: Yorgos Lamprinos
Production design: Jan Houllevigue
Costume design: Sarah Blenkinsop
Runtime: 114 min · 1h 54m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $8,000,000
Box office: $279,328
Return: 3% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Assessment (2025)

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Brent Marchant2025-03-29
★ 7/10
It often feels like we’re constantly being assessed, evaluated on everything from our creditworthiness to our work performance to our scholastic achievements. But imagine what it might be like if we were scrutinized on highly personal matters, with intrusive investigations into our most highly intimate concerns. Such is life in director Fleur Fortune’s debut feature in a dystopian version of Earth of the future. With the planet devastated by environmental decline, human society has been drastically reorganized into the old world and the new world. The former is a pathetic wasteland where individuals struggle to live out short lives under horrific conditions. The latter, meanwhile, is a sanctuary for the fortunate, with clean air, clean water and a comfortable way of life, but there’s a trade-off: Residents must abide by litany of stringent laws, rules and regulations in which they’re under constant assessment, including in matters of their so-called private lives, where the risk of being reassigned to the old world looms for even the smallest of violations. This intensive surveillance involves essentially everything, including such basic considerations as the ability to have children, a strictly regulated undertaking for which would-be parents are rigorously evaluated by government-appointed assessors on their qualifications to assume this role. So it is for Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel), a couple looking to become one of the privileged, who are placed under the microscope by their evaluator, Virginia (Alicia Vikander). The assessor takes up residence with the couple for a week to scrutinize their suitability, engaging in rounds of intensive questioning, role playing exercises and other unannounced tests to see if they meet the requisite standards. But are they up to it? The process pushes the limits of the couple’s coping abilities, exposes long-hidden secrets and pushes the envelope of their tolerance levels for their circumstances, all in the name (supposedly) of determining whether they would make acceptable parents. And, as the evaluation unfolds, it raises questions about whether the assessment is truly everything it appears to be. This inventive social sci-fi offering raises an array of probing, thoughtful questions, both for the characters, as well as audience members, particularly where matters of personal privacy and societal judgmentalism are concerned. The narrative is purposely designed to keep viewers guessing, placing them squarely in the shoes of the protagonists and nudging them to ask themselves what would they do under conditions like these. It’s an approach that generally keeps us hooked as the story plays out, despite some occasional lapses in pacing and a few sequences in which the action feels a little over the top (especially in the role playing segments). But the payoff is ultimately worth it, one that makes us question whether the constant evaluations to which we’re subjected in today’s society are everything they’re allegedly cracked up to be. This German production with dialogue in English is an intriguing examination of what we allow ourselves to be put through to see if we measure up to expectations that ultimately aren’t necessarily our own, particularly in matters that fundamentally aren’t anyone else’s business. Think about that the next time you feel you’re being unduly judged, a consideration that’s taken on new weight in today’s day and age – and that this cautionary tale might be giving us a preview of what could possibly lie ahead.
Horseface2025-05-10
★ 1/10
No idea if it could be a good film. Can't see what's going on. It's so incredibly dark. It's sunny, and a woman's swimming in the ocean, then walking on the beach. It's dark like if it were late evening, beginning of night. What the hell is going on with Hollywood? More and more films look like this. Completely unwatchable. Abandoning this garbage and switching to something else that can actually be watched.