Pi (1998)
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
30 August 1954, New York, USA
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 May 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 February 1972, Evanston, Illinois, USA
13 April 1969, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
4 June 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
26 February 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 July 1977, New York City, New York, USA
29 April 1967, Veracruz, Mexico
7 January 1963, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK
August 21, 2009
Both story and style reveal the calculations of an artist so desperate to get noticed that he forgot to cover his id.
February 29, 2008
We share Max's feelings of imminent psychological disintegration as the film probes our own insecurity in the face of the eternal. Maths meets millennial doom in one of the decade's true originals.
January 01, 2000
Pi turns what should be a metaphoric relationship into a stupefyingly literal-minded thriller.
July 09, 2009
Pi is certainly about the burden of genius, but it very well may also be about mythical powers and faulty dogma in Judaism.
February 20, 2014
Pi accomplishes so much more with...its micro-budget than a Hollywood production could.
March 29, 2009
Aronofsky, who has parlayed this movie's Sundance success into two Hollywood deals, is that rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms. He's a genuine experimenter with a spooky visual style.
June 06, 2007
It's remarkable to what extent Aronofsky has rendered the cerebral kinetically intense. The film's imaginative, diverse images create a mind's-eye urban claustrophobia.
January 30, 2013
a real treat
March 29, 2009
Disturbing, exhilarating, and sure to send anyone of conservative temperament scuttling from the room.
December 19, 2001
The movie's low-budget look neatly matches the claustrophobia of Max's life, but the filmmakers have also devised some special shooting methods for certain scenes. These sequences -- breathless and jangly chases, for the most part -- look terrific.
May 18, 2009
When the Torah is explained in mathematical terms, it's enough to make you want to take up second year trig - like the movie, a deeply flawed idea.
July 12, 2002
Audacious and bursting with ideas.
