This week I review two indie dramas about social psychologists studying control and obedience: Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter tells the story of Stanley Milgram, whose famous “electroshock” experiment in the early 60s proved that most people could be pressured into torturing an innocent person, and Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment re-creates the notorious study in which college students were cast in the roles of guards and prisoners. Also in this week’s issue, Ben Sachs reviews Taxi, the latest from Iranian troublemaker Jafar Panahi.
