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Nov 27, 2014 · Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. How odd that “The Imitation Game,” one of the more rousingly entertaining crowd-pleasers coming out this holiday season—as endorsed by its People’s Choice Award at the Toronto film festival—also happens to be one of the most devastatingly sad.
With an outstanding starring performance from Benedict Cumberbatch illuminating its fact-based story, The Imitation Game serves as an eminently well-made entry in the "prestige biopic" genre....
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- Morten Tyldum
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The Imitation Game Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Benjamín Harguindey EscribiendoCine. The movie goes beyond requiem thanks to Cumberbatch's...
Review this title. 1,022 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 7/10. Annoyingly inaccurate. johnmcc150 15 November 2014. Warning: Spoilers. As the film announces at the start, it based on a true story. The essentials are true, and to get so much history into a film things have to be condensed.
- Alan Turing Decoded
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By Matt Patches
Posted: Sep 9, 2014 3:00 am
This review is part of IGN's cover of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Alan Turing's legacy was as ciphered as the World War II codes he broke. Confidentiality kept his miraculous work breaking Hitler's “Enigma Code” from the public eye. Criminal charges filed against him for homosexuality, prosecution provoking him to commit suicide by cyanide at the age of 41, shuffled him into obscurity. In The Imitation Game, Headhunters director Morten Tyldum and Benedict Cumberbatch, at the top of his game, forge the definitive account of Turing's life.
A few months into the war, Britain struggles to counter German movement. Enter: Turing, a mathematician and puzzle enthusiast who might be MI6's last hope of breaking the impenetrable Enigma code. Prickly, socially awkward, and aware of his own genius, Turing's major hurdle isn't cracking the Nazis' cipher, it's playing nice with his fellow cryptologists. He looks down upon team leader Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode) and the underlings, eventually going over their heads, straight to Winston Churchill, to gain control of the project and push his idea forward.
The team will build what would go on to be known as the “Turing machine,” a proto-computer that, theoretically, runs through all 159 million million (that's 18 zeros) code possibilities and decipher the Enigma code. Recruiting England's top nerds, including crossword wizard Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), and avoiding MI6 bureaucracy like Commander Denniston (Game of Thrones' Charles Dance) at all costs, Turing lays down £100,000 for a gamble that could end the war — or stall Britain to the point of destruction.
Morten Tyldum constructs wall-to-wall tension that slips in an undercurrent of sadness, elevating The Imitation Game above the commonplace thriller. As a man braving childhood fears and mental illness to solve the world's problems, the unconventional Benedict Cumberbatch dominates. “The world is different place because you weren't normal,” Knightle...
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Nov 13, 2014 · The Imitation Game, film review: Benedict Cumberbatch's Alan Turing is superb. But the film is evasive about the character's sexuality. Geoffrey Macnab. Thursday 13 November 2014 14:43 GMT....
Nov 21, 2014 · The Imitation Game lets us watch as Turing and those around him come to deal with how incapable he is of balancing his genius and his inability to get along with others. Ultimately, the...
