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By Joshua Klein (32) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Dec 2005

Aronofsky's ability to capture the rush and confusion of racing down a timeline toward infinity, only to suddenly slam into a dead end, makes…

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By Tom Meek (408) for Film Threat (5,156) on 06 Dec 2005

Director Darren Aronofsky, creates an eerie Eraserhead-like world that keeps the film compelling even when it digresses into a silly cat-and-mouse…

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By Bruce Diones (105) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 07 Feb 2005

Aronofsky's delirious, Kafkaesque writing and imaginatively distorted camerawork don't quite add up, but it's fascinating, hallucinogenic film work…

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By Guy Macpherson (17) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 08 May 2004

Pi is an interesting film. Not a particularly good one, but interesting nonetheless…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 06 Aug 2003

Embora Aronofsky cometa excessos visuais em alguns momentos (tendência comprovada em seu trabalho seguinte, Réquiem para um Sonho), sua eficiente…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Netflix (481) on 07 Nov 2002

Pi is like a Cronenberg film of the mind, where the unsettling images and lusts are driven by a desire for knowledge, not flesh…

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By Margaret A. Mcgurk (290) for Cincinnati Enquirer (290) on 14 Oct 2002

Film fans who long for intellectual muscle have reason to hail Mr…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 02 Mar 2002

Delivers some thought-provoking questions about our digital age, numerology, and the hubris involved in all projects designed to decode the…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 Jul 2001

The movie's freakazoid intensity gets to you, but there's something at once cramped and show-offy in Aronofsky's refusal to even slighty vary…

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By Martyn Glanville (5) for BBC.com (1,500) on 16 Apr 2001

Pi is a lesson to aspiring film makers everywhere: perfect your skills, be original, be bold…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 01 Jan 2001

I found Cohen's quest to be interesting, but it sure made me uncomfortable to watch him writing around and screaming in pain every few minutes…

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By Ed Kelleher (65) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Jan 2000

Perhaps as a short, Pi could have proved engaging, but stretched to feature length it becomes repetitive and unwieldy…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 01 Jan 2000

As smart as it is, Pi is awfully hard to watch…

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By Bill Boisvert (4) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

With this odd mixture of elements the film's tone is gloomy, portentous, and hysterical, yet at the same time strangely earnest and square,…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Jan 2000

The seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 01 Jan 2000

Ventures into challenging, intelligent subject matter that few other films dare to…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 01 Jan 2000

This is a film that gives off a rich aroma of intellectual pursuit, but cannot digest the full intellectual and mystical meal it has cooked…

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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 01 Jan 2000

Shot in grainy, high contrast black-and-white with a lot of simple but effective optical and aural tricks to suggest the workings of his unusual…

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By Urban Cinefile Critics (1,069) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 01 Jan 2000

A compelling and, most importantly, original science-fiction film which has that rare ability to also be believable…

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By James O'ehley (345) for Sci-Fi Movie Page (492) on 01 Jan 2000

Even if you're the type who are intimidated by maths like me (to this day I insist that my high school maths teacher arrived at class on a…

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