Exam

Plot twists, lighting changes and shifts of tone work hard to sustain our attention, but the script sometimes becomes too involved in solving the structural challenges it has set itself.

Claustrophobic psychological-drama is a flawed but intriguing exercise in script writing ingenuity and economy.

A tight psychological thriller with a slight sci-fi edge. A great find.

Low-budget but handsomely mounted cross between Cube and 12 Angry Men, with some script input by mystery writer Agatha Christie and literary critic Terry Eagleton.

An intriguing yet uneven thriller...

Everything is just slightly mysterious and off-kilter.

Benefits from a bit of dark humor, some critically important editing tricks, and a mystery that's actually sort of ... interesting.

The ninth person working on this puzzle will be the viewer.

Despite their supposed cleverness, all the candidates here make mistakes that would be avoided by anybody with even the slightest knowledge of how these situations usually pan out in movies, and the whole thing gets very silly by the end.

The tale is ingeniously developed, the suspense well maintained, and you'll think more highly of it if you have to leave five minutes before the disappointing pay-off.

This low-budget British chamber piece has an intriguing scenario, so it's a shame that the po-faced, sci-fi-tinged screenplay fixates on the applicants' efforts to detect invisible ink on their exam papers.