The Imitation Game takes too many dramatic liberties in adapting for the screen but at the end of the day, the film does help right a wrong in recognizing the code-breakers--including Alan Turing--for their work during World War II.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2024

The movie goes beyond requiem thanks to Cumberbatch's performance, the supporting actors and the surprising intensity of a spy thriller set mainly in two rooms and a garage. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 1, 2024

Call out the "Oscar bait" planning and intentional polish all you want, but you won't be seeing a bad film whatsoever. You will be seeing a calculated crowd pleaser with perfect delivery, through and through.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 4, 2023

The aftertaste is somewhat schizophrenic: the founder of one of the pillars of our time was both a hero and martyr. It's a riddle the film doesn't try to solve. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2022

The Imitation Game does a fine job of making Turing's life story accessible for mass consumption—arguably to a fault.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2022

With its focus on the internal struggle as significant as the code-breaking itself, it sets it apart from its Bletchley Park predecessor, the decidedly wet Enigma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2021

The film deserves credit for pointing viewers in the direction of such a compelling individual and historical drama.

| Feb 12, 2021

Supporting cast and period production values are top notch, but it's Cumberbatch who excels, peeling back the layers of Turing's enigmatic life.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Unfortunately, the film suffers from a weak script that fails to properly educate the audience about Turing...and it also downplays Turing's homosexuality.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 30, 2021

Manages a surmounting level of intrigue from both its deft performances and its shuffling narrative of past, present, and post-war events.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 4, 2020

The accolades bestowed on this otherwise well mounted but incredibly milquetoast production is the political statement that the film simply does not have the courage to muster on its own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2020

It's right that the film is recognised for its dramatic performances, in particular Benedict Cumberbatch who shines in the role as Alan Turing. But ultimately once it ends you may feel you've seen better movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2020

The curious thing about The Imitation Game, without falling into bombast, is that it breaks codes with the wonderful performance of Benedict Cumberbatch. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 26, 2020

One of the film's achievements comes from hinting at the enormous power possessed by an unseen monarch...

| Jun 18, 2020

Benedict Cumberbatch...Mark Strong and Matthew Goode... each delivers enigmatic performances that challenge the audience to think and look below the surface for the truth of each real life character portrayed.

| Dec 14, 2019

Though hindsight is always 20/20, The Imitation Game gives us a fair and balanced glance at the tragedies that prejudice and inequality can cause. Turing achieved more in one war-torn decade than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

| Sep 15, 2019

It is watchable and entertaining but more importantly it's a movie that reveals to the world a man who's achievements many more should celebrate.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 2, 2019

Cumberbatch conveys tortured humanity behind the analytical façade, even if we also understand and even chuckle at how frustrating Turing could be to those working with him.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Jul 19, 2019

Restrained and tasteful in a very British sort of way, but it almost seems afraid to tackle its subject head on.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Gorgeously realised, engagingly witty and with great performances all around, The Imitation Game is engrossing and accomplished.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2019