The Imitation Game

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• 12-29-14
  

  Cracking the World War II Nazi Code

  by Bruce Chadwick

  A review of "The Imitation Game." The power of the film is the ever urgent need to crack the Nazi code amid the nearly non-stop bombing of London and other areas of England by the German Luftwaffe and, later, V-2 rockets.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  12-19-14
  

  A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing

  by Christian Caryl

  To anyone trying to turn this story into a movie, the choice seems clear: either you embrace the richness of Turing as a character and trust the audience to follow you there, or you simply capitulate, by reducing him to a caricature of the tortured genius.