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The Man Who Knew Infinity

Crit

Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) braves, in order of significance, emigration, celibacy, bigotry, tuberculosis, and a pathologically manipulative mother to become a math hall of famer. The real Ramanujan was short and swarthy and generally unattractive by Western standards, not at all Dev Patelish; and the real Mrs. Ramanujan, left behind in Madras so that the genius could study at Cambridge, was 10 when they married, not the mature beauty we see in the film.

Well, OK, it's a movie, and it's OK to cheat in a movie if the movie's good. But on the whole, I'd have been happier doing math myself.

Trailers

• Florence Foster Jenkins--Didn't we just see this in French, and wasn't it called Marguerite? Well, that was excellent, and this one has Streep.
• Love and Friendship--Whit Stillman does Jane Austen--looks hilarious.