Wordplay Critic Reviews

If it's challenges you're after, forget cracking "The Da Vinci Code." Wordplay captures the exhilaration that comes from navigating the ins and outs of complex puzzles.Read the full review

Whatever the documentary's flaws, the filmmakers should be saluted for giving us a rare glimpse of life in these trenches.Read the full review

What's an eight-letter word for a non-fiction feature that is witty, wise and wonderful? "Wordplay."Read the full review

The film is made with a lot of style and visual ingenuity.Read the full review

Opens up a world of words.Read the full review

The film's subjects are almost uniformly likable, self-deprecating, funny, and hyper-verbal, and their peculiar passion for crosswords and the sense of genial camaraderie among buffs proves surprisingly infectious.Read the full review

There's more palm-sweating suspense in one minute of this baby than in all of "The Omen."Read the full review

Shortz's gentle manner and French-foreign-agent mustache go a long way toward making him a thinking girl's pinup nerd - and this despite the man's pitiless insistence on making the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle ''tough as a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.''Read the full review

While puzzles are not most peoples' lives, they are truly an essential part. Wordplay goes up/down and across on the varied reasons why more than 50 million Americans do a crossword puzzle every week.Read the full review