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Pi
Artisan Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and some disturbing images
Starring
Sean Gullette,
Mark Margolis,
Ben Shenkman,
Pamela Hart,
Stephen Pearlman,
Samia Shoaib,
Ajay Naidu,
and
Kristyn Mae-Anne Lao
Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer genius, finds himself pursued by Wall Street traders and a Hasidic cabal in this award-winning film.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Darren Aronofsky (also story)
Sean Gullette (story)
Eric Watson (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Darren Aronofsky
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 24, 2001
Video: March 14, 2000
Theatrical: July 10, 1998
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| RUNNING TIME: |
84 minutes, B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Winner, Director's Award and Nominee, Grand Jury Prize, 1998 Sundance Film Festival; Winner, Best First Screenplay, 1999 Independent Spirit Awards

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90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
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.

90
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
A triumph of low-end production design, shot in sizzling, solarized black and white, and driven by a propulsive, insinuating score, Pi is a horror movie that makes you think and an indie film that makes you squirm.

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Joshua Klein
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.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math.

80
Dallas Observer
Andy Klein
Whatever its faults -- and it has more than a few -- it is unquestionably different. It at least takes a stab at interpolating cerebral ideas into the format of a thriller.

80
Salon.com
Laura Miller
It's precisely when Pi is the most arty and least "commercial," when it's serving up head scratchers instead of intrigue, that it's most entertaining.

80
Slate
David Edelstein
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.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Brilliant, surreal, and emotionally draining, this first feature from American Film Institute grad Aronofsky recalls such low-budget sci-fi epics as "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" and more traditional paranoiac suspense films (Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder" in particular, but also Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby") and yet manages to be a wholly original animal.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Audacious and bursting with ideas, the paranoid little sci-fi independent film Pi marks an auspicious debut for New York writer Darren Aronofsky.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
It proceeds, weirdly enough, from the truly annoying to the absolutely fascinating.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
Pi will not be for everyone, but for those who are fed up with the mainstream idiocy that gets dumped into theaters each summer, this movie willbe like a great big palate-clearing taste of sorbet.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
For anyone who wants a movie to feed their intelligence and imagination more than their eyes and ears, Pi is a solid choice.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
This intellectual allegory would carry more punch if it didn't slip into melodrama so often, but it marks Aronofsky as an exceptionally promising new filmmaker.

70
The New Yorker
Bruce Diones
Aronofsky's delirious, Kafkaesque writing and imaginatively distorted camerawork don't quite add up, but it's fascinating, hallucinogenic film work.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
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.

70
Washington Post
Eve Zibart
Pi may be the most engrossing piece of cyberpunk cinema yet.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Its power lies both in Aronofsky's evocation of tightly wound paranoia and in his flawless dovetailing of personal obsession and cultural anxieties.

60
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
In the end, it's primarily a brain teaser, obtuse and ultimately limited in its emotional impact.

60
Empire
Kim Newman
Shot in grainy, high contrast black-and-white with a lot of simple but effective optical and aural tricks to suggest the workings of his unusual mind, this is one of the most intimate movies in recent memory.

60
Film Threat
Tom Meek
Director Darren Aronofsky, creates an eerie "Eraserhead"-like world that keeps the film compelling even when it digresses into a silly cat-and-mouse psychodrama.

30
Chicago Reader
Bill Boisvert
With this odd mixture of elements the film's tone is gloomy, portentous, and hysterical, yet at the same time strangely earnest and square, as if David Lynch had tried to somehow make a movie version of Scientific American.


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