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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt is a brilliant intellectual adventure that fans of bold independent filmmaking will want to experience, even though the ending is something of a letdown.
- 90L.A. WeeklyManohla DargisL.A. WeeklyManohla DargisA triumph of low-end production design, shot in sizzling, solarized black and white, and driven by a propulsive, insinuating score, Pi is a horror movie that makes you think and an indie film that makes you squirm.
- Aronofsky's ability to capture the rush and confusion of racing down a timeline toward infinity, only to suddenly slam into a dead end, makes for impressive and occasionally disturbing stuff.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamSan Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamIt proceeds, weirdly enough, from the truly annoying to the absolutely fascinating.
- 75San Francisco ExaminerSan Francisco ExaminerPi will not be for everyone, but for those who are fed up with the mainstream idiocy that gets dumped into theaters each summer, this movie willbe like a great big palate-clearing taste of sorbet.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie's freakazoid intensity gets to you, but there's something at once cramped and show-offy in Aronofsky's refusal to even slighty vary its atmosphere of shock-corridor burnout.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe film's imaginative, diverse images create a mind's-eye urban claustrophobia; such intensity may exhaust over 85 minutes' course, but it's never less than impressive.
- 70Washington PostWashington PostPi may be the most engrossing piece of cyberpunk cinema yet.
- 30Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderWith this odd mixture of elements the film's tone is gloomy, portentous, and hysterical, yet at the same time strangely earnest and square, as if David Lynch had tried to somehow make a movie version of Scientific American.