The Assessment

3/29/2025

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 tra

5/10/2025

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.