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Name: Genius
Released: 2016-6-10
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jude Law, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce

Genius

PG-13
1h 44m
2016

51%

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From Academy Award-nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award-winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE (former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse) in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world-renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger-than-life literary giant Thomas Wolfe. Based on the biography "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" by A. SCOTT BERG, Genius stars COLIN FIRTH as Perkins, JUDE LAW as Wolfe, NICOLE KIDMAN as Aline Bernstein, a costume designer sharing a tumultuous relationship with Wolfe, LAURA LINNEY as Louise Perkins, Max's wife and a talented playwright, GUY PEARCE as F. Scott Fitzgerald and DOMINIC WEST as Ernest Hemingway.

Director:

Michael Grandage

Producer:

James J. Bagley, A. Scott Berg, Tim Bevan, Nik Bower, Arielle Tepper, Deepak Nayar

Writer:

A. Scott Berg, John Logan

Cast:

Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jude Law, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

51%

Critics Consensus: Genius seeks to honor worthy subjects, yet never gets close enough to the titular quality to make watching worth the effort.

Reviews

Battleship Pretension

Ian Brill

As Perkins and Wolfe discuss the importance of every choice and omission an artist makes in crafting work, it is sad that Genius doesn't know show much evidence of that same consideration.

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World Socialist Web Site

David Walsh

A great wall separates the producers, writers and directors at present from the kind of mental effort it takes to represent the world in a serious artistic manner. For the most part, unhappily, they have only clichés and guesswork at their disposal.

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Sarah's Backstage Pass

Sarah Knight Adamson

Michael Grandage could've used his female stars more powerfully-and the whole film smells of Oscar Bait-but the opposites-attract friendship between Perkins and Wolfe is the stuff of literary lore and is more than enough...

'Genius' looks like a half-baked bread, lacking a solid emotional hook. [Full Review in Spanish]

While the film fails to live up to its namesake, it's a starry, solid account of a literary icon and the man who brought him to the world.

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