Starring Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel, The Assessment is a wonderfully dark-looking dystopian thriller. Trailer and details within.

Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen are no strangers to genre fare, and The Assessment sees them join forces for a particularly intriguing sci-fi thriller. The directorial debut of Fleur Fortuné, it was first screened at assorted film festivals last year, and is getting a US cinema release this March.

At some unspecified point in the future, the birth rate is aggressively controlled to the extent that any family hoping to bear a child has to first endure a week-long interrogation process in their own home. Young couple Mia (Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) are one such couple, and their sleek-looking house is visited one day by their frosty assessor, Virginia (Vikander). As the seven-day process winds on, Mia and Aaryan are subjected to increasing scrutiny, and it appears that by...