experimenter

[IMDB] [Amazon]

stanley milgram's experiments are pretty monumental, but you have almost certainly already heard of them and the controversy around them.  so this movie did not add a whole lot in terms of new information or a new angle on an existing story.  the main thing i thought it was trying to add was some form of symbolism in the choice of using photographs of backgrounds instead of backgrounds and an apparent attempt to show many scenes in such a way as to make the viewer watch from behind a partition.  i guess they wanted to evoke the feeling of distance, watching from behind a 1-way mirror, like milgram did, or from behind a camera, as he also did.  and then they intentionally broke that distancing by having milgram directly address the camera and voiceover.  whatever it was they were trying to do, it did not quite work.

experimenter gets two wrong answers.

get the gringo

[IMDB] [Amazon]

get the gringo is essentially a remake of payback, which also starred mel gibson.  get the gringo replaces the city with a jail, the escort-for-hire with a mom, and the dog with a 10-year-old boy.  everything else is essentially the same.  mel gibson does very well in the gentleman antihero role, and the story is satisfying in its way, though you would not be wrong to also mark it as predictable.  if you have the option to watch payback instead, you should absolutely go for it.  payback had less of a racist vibe and took itself less seriously.

get the gringo gets three gringos.