The Imitation Game - Kritiken

...does an impressive job of simplifying, condensing, and distilling what actually happened into a series of accessible “eureka!” moments...

...one of the more rousingly entertaining crowd-pleasers coming out this holiday...

Moore’s opening line, spoken by Cumberbatch, is, “Are you paying attention?” After a few minutes you’ll realise it’s virtually impossible not to.

Knightley is miles better than she's been in a while; sitting on a shelf rather than centre stage seems to suit her. She has fun with her plummy vowels, even when saying lines like I'm a woman in a man's job.

...one of the more rousingly entertaining crowd-pleasers coming out this holiday...

Moore’s opening line, spoken by Cumberbatch, is, “Are you paying attention?” After a few minutes you’ll realise it’s virtually impossible not to.

...a celebration of Turing’s extraordinary achievements, a populist yarn that makes an admirably firm fist of establishing its spiky subject as a heroic outsider.

...[Cumberbatch is] really good at what he does. Here, he does a lot with a little...

...does an impressive job of simplifying, condensing, and distilling what actually happened into a series of accessible “eureka!” moments...

Knightley is miles better than she's been in a while; sitting on a shelf rather than centre stage seems to suit her. She has fun with her plummy vowels, even when saying lines like I'm a woman in a man's job.