While very well-intentioned to focus on the man over the persona, it feels skewed and short on glitz representative of someone larger-than-life such as Stephen Hawking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2023

There is still a good story to be found in “The Theory of Everything” despite its standard biopic flavor and rushed ending.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Redmayne's physical performance astounds, and Jones makes a wonderfully empathetic female lead. If only their performances were part of a better treatment of this worthy subject.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2022

A standard biopic - there's loads of shots of Hawking furiously scribbling mathematical symbols on a chalkboard for instance - but Jones and Redmayne give this study of a scientific mind something special - heart.

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

While The Theory of Everything doesn't fully demonstrate the importance of Hawking and his work, Redmayne and Jones' performances are a beautiful tribute to the couple.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 30, 2021

It is the performance of Felicity Jones that truly illuminates the screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

A by-the-numbers biopic fronted by two incredible performances.

| Original Score: B | Jul 7, 2020

It seems that The Theory of Everything doesn't have to theorize as much to prove that Eddie Redmayne is staging, perhaps, one of the best performances of the year. [Full review in Spanish]

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

The Theory of Everything ultimately wants to live in the heart and not the mind, and in that, it succeeds admirably.

| Jan 9, 2020

The Theory of Everything side-steps the obvious aspects that shaped Hawking into the man he is today, but Redmayne and Jones deserve the praise in this somewhat biased biopic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2019

Standardly told, yet executing the complicated parameters and perils of the biopic quite satisfactorily, it may not be as brilliant as its subject, but it's a moving piece of cinema nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 12, 2019

The Theory of Everything is an interesting story about a genius, but it will be the performances by the Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones that will stay with you.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 2, 2019

The Theory of Everything is the Hawkings' universe in a nutshell.

| Original Score: 3.25/5 | Jul 19, 2019

The kind of respectable, middle of the road biopic that always comes out around Oscar season hoping for awards.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2019

The Theory of Everything is still an emotionally affecting drama of human tragedy and survival.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2019

The Theory of Everything may not tell us the full story but the captivating narrative it presents makes it more than worthy of your attention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2019

It's a perfectly standard adequate satisfying biopic about a very unique man.

| Original Score: B- | May 2, 2019

The Theory of Everything is a good, if very conventional, film, but the real story it's based on could have been made into a great one.

| Mar 11, 2019

Redmayne is brilliant as Stephen Hawking.

| Feb 5, 2019

Adheres to the standard biography blueprint. What helps "The Theory of Everything" rise above mediocrity is Redmayne and Jones.

| Jan 25, 2019