Review of The Imitation Game (2014) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 26 Nov 2014
It’s a marvelous story about science and humanity, plus a great performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, plus first-rate filmmaking and cinematography, minus a script that muddles its source material to the point of betraying it.
Those strengths make the movie worth seeing, but the writing keeps eating away at the narrative’s clarity — and integrity — until it’s impossible to separate the glib fictions from the remarkable facts.
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This review of The Imitation Game (2014) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 26 Nov 2014.
The Imitation Game has generally received very positive reviews.
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