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Genius

Genius

2016
Drama, Biography
1h 44m
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. (imdb)
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Genius

2016
Drama, Biography
1h 44m
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Rated 21 Feb 2016
60
50th
The great Colin Firth can, of course, be relied upon once again, but the rest of the film isn't on his level of excellence.
Rated 10 Mar 2024
70
50th
This film is amusing enough if only for both Jude Law and Colin Firth's 'drawl' type US accents alone!. Its an interesting story and its pretty well told - all the mentions of F Scott Fitzgerald intrigued me. By the end it was quite movingm if perhaps a little pretentious maybe. Not an entirely stand out film but a decent enough film, this is worth a watch if it really interests you, yes, I reckon so.
Rated 19 Jun 2016
80
80th
Several fine performances, including Jude Law's best in a good while, in an interesting story that would have been much less interesting if one attempted to slog through the written history, much less the novels, it deals with. Dialogue is excellent, spiced up as it is with poetic and profound high points from Wolfe's writing--a filtering service I greatly appreciate.
Rated 04 Dec 2017
88
63rd
Well acted and written. Much better than I expected.
Rated 22 Jun 2016
65
45th
A movie raised a bit by the nice chemistry if Firth and Law, but still not anything great. Basically everything that didn't involve them together felt melodramatic which doesn't work great in what's supposed to be a biography. The dialogue took me a bit to get used to as it's much more poetic than how most people talk, but maybe these literary guys did talk like that and I'm just some caveman who reads Stephen King books.
Rated 22 Nov 2016
40
58th
The accents were murder!
Rated 17 Apr 2016
63
61st
It's absolutely fine. But that's it.
Rated 18 Jan 2019
60
28th
Not as good as I wanted it to be when it came out, but not as bad as many of the reviews. A solid 'fair'...
Rated 08 Feb 2020
60
58th
ger; [genius - die tausend seiten einer freundschaft]; ein editor und lektor eines buchverlages betreut verschiedene schriftsteller, mit unterschiedlichen charakteren - wie hemingway, fritzgerald und nun auch wolfe.;
Rated 19 Sep 2022
2
9th
They gave it the same treatment that "Pride and Prejudice" got with the Kiera Knightly version: every scene over-acted, every character a pile of compulsions, lots of emotion, almost no coherent appreciation for these men as people or intellects. This could have been an amazing movie, and instead it was a painful watch that dragged on until it mercifully ended without making a clear point.

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