Time's up, pencils down
Eight candidates competing for the same
job are seated in a room for an exam. Each is given a piece of
paper, a pencil, and very little instruction. Told that the first
candidate to answer their question is the winner, they are given 80 minutes and the instructor leaves the room. Each
candidate turns his or her page over to find it blank. And the next two
hours are pretty wild. Exam explores the limitations, possibilities,
and dangers that one room can hold. I put this film right alongside
Hitchcock's Rope or Rodrigo Cortés' Buried. Minimalistic and
intense, this film is a great thriller which had me hooked from the
opening credits.
Exam passes the test with 4 out of 5
Poblanos!
Director: Stuart Hazeldine (Exam is
his feature film directorial debut. He has written
screenplays for Knowing with Nicholas Cage, Scott Derrickson's
remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, and the upcoming screen
adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost.)
Writer: Stuart Hazeldine, Simon Garrity
Rotten Tomatoes: 63%
Metacritic: not reviewed
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