The Parent Trap: Elizabeth Olsen Tries Not to Break In Fleur Fortuné’s Debut The Assessment

The one thing you can count as the world gets worse is a government bureaucracy aimed at making life even more difficult. That’s the general premise of The Assessment, a heady sci-fi dramedy in which even the upper echelon of the 1% don’t find sanctuary from the unseen hand around their necks. The feature debut by music video director Fleur Fortuné is, expectedly, not short on style, but there is only so much the filmmaker can do to hold back a script that is so overstuffed with ideas it eventually overwhelms the carefully calibrated timbre of the picture.…...