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Aronofsky's ability to capture the rush and confusion of racing down a timeline toward infinity, only to suddenly slam into a dead end, makes for impressive and occasionally disturbing stuff.Read the full review
It is a brilliant intellectual adventure that fans of bold independent filmmaking will want to experience, even though the ending is something of a letdown. Read the full review
The seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math.Read the full review
This is very much a first feature, with all the hyperbolic, sometimes indiscriminate cinematic energy of a student film. But it's also sensational, a febrile meditation on the mathematics of existence.Read the full review
It proceeds, weirdly enough, from the truly annoying to the absolutely fascinating. Read the full review
The movie's freakazoid intensity gets to you, but there's something at once cramped and show-offy in Aronofsky's refusal to even slighty vary its atmosphere of shock-corridor burnout.Read the full review
For anyone who wants a movie to feed their intelligence and imagination more than their eyes and ears, Pi is a solid choice.Read the full review
Pi may be the most engrossing piece of cyberpunk cinema yet.Read the full review
The film's imaginative, diverse images create a mind's-eye urban claustrophobia; such intensity may exhaust over 85 minutes' course, but it's never less than impressive. Read the full review
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.Read the full review
