The Imitation Game

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    The Imitation Game
    2014

    Synopsis

    Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

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    Cast

    • Benedict CumberbatchAlan Turing
    • Keira KnightleyJoan Clarke
    • Matthew GoodeHugh Alexander
    • Rory KinnearDetective Robert Nock
    • Allen LeechJohn Cairncross
    • Matthew BeardPeter Hilton
    • Charles DanceCommander Denniston
    • Mark StrongStewart Menzies
    • James NorthcoteJack Good
    • Tom Goodman-HillSergeant Staehl

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Variety

      So innately compelling is Turing’s story — to say nothing of Benedict Cumberbatch’s masterful performance — it’s hard not to get caught up in this well-told tale and its skillful manipulations.
    • 80

      Time Out London

      Its various riffs on codes, whether moral, sexual, societal or German, are plain to see rather than enigmatic or enlightening. Luckily it’s all anchored in a storming performance from Cumberbatch: you’ll be deciphering his work long after the credits roll.
    • 78

      Film.com

      Strong, stirring, triumphant and tragic, The Imitation Game may be about a man who changed the world, but it’s also about the world that destroyed a man.
    • 75

      The Playlist

      The Imitation Game is entertaining and well-crafted, but one still can’t help but wish the drama had a bit more bite and nerve throughout.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Dominating it all is Cumberbatch, whose charisma, tellingly modulated and naturalistic array of eccentricities, Sherlockian talent at indicating a mind never at rest and knack for simultaneously portraying physical oddness and attractiveness combine to create an entirely credible portrait of genius at work.
    • 67

      IndieWire

      It's a reserved, almost conservative performance, and in holding so much back so much of the time, Cumberbatch makes his few outward displays of emotion far more impactful.
    • 60

      The Telegraph

      The Imitation Game is a film about a human calculator which feels... a little too calculated.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      What Cumberbatch delivers is an impressively rounded character study of someone variously kind, prickly, aggressive, awkward and supremely confident. But it's almost too nuanced. Accuracy isn't all, but fumbling in the dark isn't always fun.

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