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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:7
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.6/10
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
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.
Top CriticIt'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.
Top CriticAudacious and bursting with ideas.
Top CriticThe movie's low-budget look neatly matches the claustrophobia of Max's life, but the filmmakers have also devised some special shooting methods for certain scenes. These sequences -- breathless and jangly chases, for the most part -- look terrific.
Top CriticPi turns what should be a metaphoric relationship into a stupefyingly literal-minded thriller.
Top CriticIt 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.
Top CriticTransports us to a world that is like yet unlike our own, and, in its mysterious familiarity, is eerie, intense, and compelling.
Top CriticThe seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math.
Top CriticAs 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.
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