Michael Angarano

Dissatisfying to an adult audience accustomed to more sophisticated parody....will resonate with young viewers on their way to high school.

More interested in melancholy wryness than belly laughs, and the low-key results have a pleasant fizz.

Finds Soderbergh keeping it simple, stupid, by filling the story's hollowness with kick-butt action and elements of style.

Zimbardo insists he’s 'trying to understand how an institution affects an individual’s behavior.' Alvarez’s own dark study, empowered by potent acting, allows the audience to contemplate the many variations on that psychological dynamic.