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Computer Chess
2013 1h 31m Not Rated
Comedy
6.2
88%
53%
61%
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A 1980s-set story centered around a man vs. machine chess tournament.
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Directed By
Andrew Bujalski
Written By
Andrew Bujalski
Studio
Computer Chess
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Cast of Computer Chess
Patrick Riester
Bishton
Myles Paige
Papageorge
James Curry
Carbray
Robin Schwartz
Shelly
Gerald Peary
Henderson
Wiley Wiggins
Beuscher
Kriss Schludermann
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Computer Chess Reviews
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It's impossible not to see "Computer Chess" as both a humble, low-fi ode to evanescence and the deceptively cute baby picture of the digital disrupters who will soon bestride the Earth.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
It approaches its subjects not with the gleeful, madcap hilarity of a Christopher Guest mockumentary ("Best in Show," "A Mighty Wind"), but with the calculated precision of lines of code.
Detroit News
Tom Long
In the end, you simply wish the characters (and the actors) were in a more subtle and focused film. "Computer Chess" plays a risky game. Unfortunately, it loses.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
You need no particular knowledge or affection for the game of kings to appreciate the whimsy of "Computer Chess."
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
It's idiosyncratic, actively noncommercial, and doesn't follow the rules -- like playing a game of chess on a board with no squares.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
It becomes something that's hard to decipher; hard to put into words in a review. That's a good thing.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess is bracingly idiosyncratic-and close to perfect.
ARTINFO.com
J. Hoberman
A double or maybe a triple nerd-fest, influential independent Andrew Bujalski's typically deadpan Computer Chess is a small movie with a comic novel premise and a near cosmic theme.
Film Comment Magazine
Kent Jones
Computer Chess is one of the most original and satisfying movies I've seen in ages.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
A breakthrough -- not just for indie writer-director Andrew Bujalski, but for American movie comedy.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A punitively dull chunk of quirk that is about, and feels like, being stuck in a motel with a gaggle of programming nerds for a weekend.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A deadpan mock-documentary about an early-'80s gathering of programming nerds, arguing about AI and predictive algorithms and showing off questionable fashion choices and facial hair.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
This profound, peculiar work of genius, this half-comic portrait of the present in embryo within the past, reverberates with hidden meanings and a questing intelligence.
RogerEbert.com
Roger Ebert
As an achievement, "Computer Chess" is laudable. As a film, it's missable.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Bujalski doesn't give us enough in the way of story or characters, and "Computer Chess" eventually seems to just fade away; one of those movies, perhaps, that was more fun to make than it is to watch.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Watching "Computer Chess" is like opening an ancient Altair 8800 to peer at the tiny people inside.
Grantland
Wesley Morris
Bujalski is having fun with Night of the Living Dead, on a community-access palette. But I also can't think of another director who's come closer to capturing how antique technology would dream about us.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Bujalski has a fantastic eye. The movie was shot in black and white with '70s video cameras, and could easily be mistaken for a documentary.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Computer Chess is about the dawn - one of many, but that's another story - of the tech revolution. It's also a reminder that you don't need state-of-the-art toys to make a formally playful comedy about man versus machine.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Artificial intelligence remains an intoxicating theory and a heady possibility, about which I am hardly qualified to speak. But I do know real filmmaking intelligence when I see it.
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