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The Imitation Game

2014

Morten Tyldum

Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance ...

7.2

59,679

Thriller. Drama Alan Turing was a British mathematician and codebreaker who helped the Allies to victory over Nazi Germany during World War II and was highly influential in the development of the computer through his invention of the Turing machine. He was also persecuted for his sexual identity, and was prosecuted for homosexual acts by the UK government in 1952, which at that time were still criminalised, and forced to undergo hormonal treatment. He ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"An engrossing and moving film that features a standout, Oscar-worthy performance by Benedict Cumberbatch (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The film's prime force is Cumberbatch, a great actor whose talent shines here on its highest beams. It's an explosive, emotionally complex performance. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out four)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is overly reluctant to dive into the nitty gritty (...) But dominating it all is Cumberbatch, whose charisma (...) and (...) talent at indicating a mind never at rest (...) to create an entirely credible portrait of genius at work."	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"A veddy British biopic of prodigal mathematician (...) Alan Turing, rendered in such unerringly tasteful (...) that every one of Turing’s professional triumphs and personal tragedies arrives right on schedule and with nary a hair out of place."	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"It's a marvelous story about science and humanity, plus a great performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, plus first-rate filmmaking and cinematography"	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"Turing will survive this film with his enigma intact, but the movie itself is the opposite of enigmatic, and Cumberbatch merits more"	NEU
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A superb thriller and a worthy biopic of a real hero (...) An impressive debut for screenwriter Graham Moore, and a big-screen career highlight for Benedict Cumberbatch (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"It's a sad and heartbreaking story that keeps you nailed to the screen for its entire 114-minute running time. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"An engrossing and poignant thriller (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	“'The Imitation Game’' effectively frames the triumphant and tragic life of the man considered the father of modern computing (...) a triumph for Cumberbatch"	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez IndieWire	"Uneven, but still occasionally resonant, the movie of course reminds us of not only the longtail damage of secrets and lies, but the heartbreaking personal cost endured by Alan Turing."	NEU
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"You won’t need anything like Turing’s powers of detection to understand what the energetic, respectable ‘The Imitation Game’ has to offer (...) Luckily it’s all anchored in a storming performance from Cumberbatch (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The movie is entertaining (...) Cumberbatch and his on-screen colleagues (...) transcend the script's facile quality. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'The Imitation Game' is a highly conventional movie about a profoundly unusual man. This is not entirely a bad thing."	NEU

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