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The Man Who Knew Infinity

2015

Matt Brown

Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry ...

6.2

5,286

Drama Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"The story is unique; the story-telling awfully familiar (...) [A] respectable but all too conventional biopic"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"An overly dutiful account of physical hardship, cultural prejudice and inevitable tragedy that, in form and spirit, never channels the inventiveness and ingenuity of its subject’s work."	NEU
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"The film is unashamedly middle-brow and sentimental but it tells such a good story that it is hard to resist."	POS
United States	Walter Addiego SFGATE	"If there’s a certain staid quality about the direction, it’s still a very affecting tale. And math buffs will appreciate the inclusion of a brief and witty anecdote"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Lowry Empire	"Well intentioned and played, this shows flashes of what could have been, but is ultimately let down by its timidity towards the maths, and fails to make the case for its own hero’s greatness (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU

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