Destined to pick up a cult following.
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01/17/03
Pi (1997)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:41
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Dramatically gripping and frighteningly smart, this Lynchian thriller does wonders with its unlikely subject and shoestring budget.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Low-budget film that won Darren Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is... [More]
Starring: Sean Gullette, Ben Shenkman, Mark Margolis, Pamela Hart
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Reviews for Pi
Transports us to a world that is like yet unlike our own, and, in its mysterious familiarity, is eerie, intense, and compelling.
01/01/00
Top CriticEvery line of dialogue, indeed every small action, is packed with meaning in this taxingly potent film.
01/01/00
Pi turns what should be a metaphoric relationship into a stupefyingly literal-minded thriller.
01/01/00
Top CriticFeatures too many half-formed ideas to live up to its potential.
02/27/01
What is difficult is to view this film without a mind seeking to be intrigued, because, if you don't want intrigue, you shouldn't be watching Pi.
01/01/00
Delivers some thought-provoking questions about our digital age, numerology, and the hubris involved in all projects designed to decode the mystery of the universe.
03/02/02
An ambitious, stylish and intriguing first effort by Aronofsky and director of photography Matthew Libatique. If you're of a mind for an offbeat but fascinating film, give it a shot.
04/09/05
Aronofsky, who has parlayed this movie's Sundance success into two Hollywood deals, is that rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms. He's a genuine experimenter with a spooky visual style.
03/29/09
Top CriticThe intent is to create a living nightmare of psychological horror, and Aronofsky succeeds most unsettlingly.
01/01/00
The seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math.
01/01/00
Top CriticPi is a lesson to aspiring film makers everywhere: perfect your skills, be original, be bold. It's a pity young British directors aren't making films as unique and imaginative as this. Startlingly good cinema.
04/17/01
It all leads to a very strange place, and I'm particularly impressed with the economical means, both financially and artistically, by which Aronofsky gets there.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn imaginative, intellectually stimulating feature-film.
01/01/00
It's remarkable to what extent Aronofsky has rendered the cerebral kinetically intense. The film's imaginative, diverse images create a mind's-eye urban claustrophobia.
06/06/07
Top CriticPi is certainly about the burden of genius, but it very well may also be about mythical powers and faulty dogma in Judaism.
07/09/09
As smart as it is, 'Pi' is awfully hard to watch. Filmed with hand-held cameras in splotchy black-and-white and crudely edited, it has the style and attitude of a no-budget midnight movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticVentures into challenging, intelligent subject matter that few other films dare to.
01/01/00
We share Max's feelings of imminent psychological disintegration as the film probes our own insecurity in the face of the eternal. Maths meets millennial doom in one of the decade's true originals.
02/29/08
Eureka! This movie is the ultimate portrayal of the numbers racket -- a slice of pi that as sci-fi fantasy really does cut it and makes us hunger fort desserts in store as a sequel to this promising debut by Mr. Aronofsky.
01/01/00
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