Rotten
Not nearly as smart as it should be.
Marsha Lederman, Globe and Mail
Genius
Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.
2016 · 1h 44m · PG-13
Drama, History
Directed by
Michael Grandage
,
Richard Dempsey
Overview
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
Director and cast
- Michael Grandage Director
- Richard Dempsey Director
- Colin Firth as Max Perkins
- Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe
- Nicole Kidman as Aline Bernstein
- Laura Linney as Louise Saunders
- Guy Pearce as F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway
- Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald
- Demetri Goritsas as John Wheelock
- Harry Attwell as Assistant Editor
- Angela Ashton as Bertha Perkins
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"Genius" deals with the creative ego, its trappings and the need everyone has for an editor.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
Rotten
Well-written, gorgeously shot, and expertly edited, the film is also an exasperating exercise in good intentions gone wrong.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
Perhaps the best advertisement for Genius -- not only did it make me want to revisit Berg's book, it had me lining up the Wolfe, Fitzgerald and Hemingway on the e-book runway.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Firth and Law falter with their characters' awkward bromance: the former a fatherly cipher (will he ever take off that fedora?); the latter a clatter of drunken scribe cliches.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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