The Man Who Knew Infinity

"If you can recall the frustration of getting the right answers in a school maths tests but being marked down for not explaining how you got there, you’ll relate to this film, for it’s essentially Show Your Working: The Movie. Sure, it’s not an eye-grabbing title (especially for those with mathlexia), but it does succinctly describe the main challenge faced by real-life mathematic genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) and collaborating Cambridge University professor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons)."

"The arguments between Ramanujan and Hardy form easily the most absorbing aspect of The Man Who Knew Infinity..."

"Polite, earnest stuff, but it never quite adds up to much."

"Irons’s Hardy steals this film away from its ostensible hero, in part because pulling the shutters down makes him that much harder to know."

"Mr. Irons handily hits the emotional beats, as does Mr. Patel, as Ramanujan confronts incipient tuberculosis."

"At the end, it looks like a treacly, albeit high-minded Sunday afternoon drama serial."

"Predictable but poignant."

"Touching, yes, and also informative, but it doesn't really add up to much in the end."

"Highly engaging performances by Dev Patel in the lead role and Jeremy Irons as his curmudgeonly mentor gradually warm up the Cambridge story..."

"Well intentioned and played, this shows flashes of what could have been, but is ultimately let down by its timidity towards the maths..."