Particle Fever shows how the theorists and experimenters need and respect each other, in the course of setbacks, disappointments, premature celebrations and public relations glitches.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2014

Particle Fever explores with awe-inspiring precision, and in remarkably accessible language, how 10,000 scientists and engineers from around the world built what in effect is the ultimate test tube for particle physics.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 21, 2014

The enthusiasm, idealism, and cheerful brilliance of the six subjects convey the thrill, if not the full significance, of this scientific breakthrough.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2014

It plays out with all the suspense of a thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2014

Even the most math-averse viewer will be on pins and needs to know the results.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2014

The filmmakers find room for some witty philosophical bull sessions and affectionate portraits of some of the physicists; this is an agreeable light entertainment on a complex subject.

| Mar 13, 2014

Even if you can't explain the Standard Model or define "supersymmetry," you'll walk away with a conviction that you've vicariously participated in a historic event.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2014

The bracing scientific rigor and intellectual derring-do presented in "Particle Fever" are most welcome.

| Mar 9, 2014

All you really need to know about Particle Fever is that it includes footage of physicists rapping. About physics. Wearing giant Einstein masks.

| Mar 7, 2014

The film allows for our awe. It also demonstrates that science is the most human of activities, with all that that implies.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 7, 2014

Set in crummy offices and towering facilities worthy of a Bond movie, the documentary is edited with the momentum of a thriller by the great Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now), as we follow six scientists.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 7, 2014

Watching a film won't make you smarter, but if there ever was one that could, it would be "Particle Fever," a movie so mind-bending you can almost feel your brain cells growing as you're watching it.

| Mar 6, 2014

As fictional Vulcan Spock might have pronounced: "Fascinating."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2014

Talk about a smash hit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2014

A compelling, if sometimes difficult to follow, story.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 6, 2014

The film may not put itself above the uninitiated, but director Mark Levinson oftentimes appears almost too eager to present his material with affectation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 5, 2014

A movie that's not just accessible but fun, with a surprisingly emotional payoff at the end.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2014

Particle Fever is that rare, exhilarating science doc that's neither dumbed down nor drabbed up.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 4, 2014

The experience of watching the film can be vertiginous: You toggle between the tiny and the infinite, between eternity and the real time of the recent past.

| Mar 4, 2014

A dazzling, dizzying documentary about nothing less than whether we exist in a coherent universe of ordered, even beautiful laws ...

| Mar 4, 2014