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LP . 23 . ISFJ  "I may be on the side of the angels... but don't think for one second that I am one of them."

[time-schwime]

Arthur: “I’m fairly often just completely happy. Like, for instance, when you get into a bath quickly and it’s just the right temperature, and you go ‘ooooh.’ I mean really no one gets any happier than that.”

Martin: “What a depressing thought.”

Arthur: “No, no, it’s not though, because those sort of things happen all the time, whereas you’re hardly ever, you know, blissfully happy with the love of your life in the moonlight, and when you are, you’re too busy worrying about it being over soon, whereas the bath moments, there’s loads of those!”

[poirott]

Happy 10th Anniversary, BBC Sherlock (2010-2017)!

Episode 1x01 A Study in Pink aired 10 years ago today on July 25 2010.

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Cumberbatch, as you might expect, bristles with brilliance in the role – and should be considered an Oscar frontrunner. We’ve seen him as Sherlock Holmes, so we never doubt that he packs more brainpower than anyone else on the Enigma-busting team. But, unlike the emotionally cold sleuth, Turing is a real-life historical figure, sensitive and troubled. He feels deeply and passionately for his life’s work, and tears often flood his eyes, a repressed stammer forcing itself on his lips. The performance bears so many shades of varying emotion, on the surface and deep below, that it is nothing short of miraculous.

Thelma Adams, Yahoo! review of The Imitation Game

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As the film continues to settle within my cinematic soul, this very well could be the best film of the year, anchored by a career best performance from the amazing Benedict Cumberbatch.... Benedict Cumberbatch continues to climb the ladder as one of the best actors working today. After impressive performances August: Osage County, 12 Years a Slave, and TV’s “Sherlock,” this is the role that will make him a bonafide movie star. Oscar-winner or not, this will be looked upon like the greats such as Gene Hackman in The French Connection or any legendary 70’s movie that you love today. Cumberbatch hones in on all of Turing’s character flaws and good qualities that make him a real person. He constructs him from the toes up, inflicting mannerisms and behaviors that all ring true. He stimulates all the sensual beats that keep us fixated on a performance. I can’t help but go back to someone like Joaquin Phoenix in The Master, who delivered a construction of epic proportions. Though based on a real person, the talented Cumberbatch ignites his own masterpiece performance. He follows the demons of Turing down to his bones. Unsure, arrogant, and dismissive to the world around him, Turing shows only what he must, what he chooses, and every once in a while, we get a front seat to his soul. Thank you Cumberbatch.... It’s a complete realistic view at the spy game that stands as one of the best films of the year and a performance for the ages from Benedict Cumberbatch.

Clayton Davis, The Awards Circuit review of The Imitation Game

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A woman in the audience asked British star Benedict Cumberbatch if she could “taste [his] deliciousness’’ during a Q & A following Monday night’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere of his thoroughly engrossing biopic “The Imitation Game.’’ He politely demurred, but his legions of fans, Oscar voters and everyone else will soon get to savor his sensitive and cerebral performance as math genius Alan Turing.... “The Imitation Game,’’ which hits US theaters on Nov. 21, is a triumph for Cumberbatch — who, here, as in his very different TV performance as Sherlock Holmes, proves he’s not only as “yummy’’ as that woman in the audience described him, but excels at playing characters with beautiful minds.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post review of The Imitation Game

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Strange to think that this biopic of Alan Turing was originally bought for Leonardo di Caprio. How would that have worked? Benedict Cumberbatch is absolutely the right man to play this brilliant, arrogant and, as he appears here at least, slightly autistic problem-solver — it's no surprise to learn that the film's scriptwriter Graham Moore was previously best known for a novel called The Sherlockian.

David Sexton, Evening Standard's review of The Imitation Game

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Turing was, to put it extremely simply, a complicated fellow – highly intelligent, socially awkward, and mostly interested in being alone – and Cumberbatch captures his various moods and modes with ease. The Imitation Game may be a touch more neat and nifty than it should be, but Cumberbatch’s work is enough to mark it as something very special indeed.... It may be remarkably standard storytelling, but the fine details that Cumberbatch layers into his performance, along with well-crafted historical elements and an engaging story, elevate the entire film to a higher plane. Cumberbatch’s performance is often quite remarkably understated. The actor doesn’t go for big, obvious choices, and his restrained work is a new career high for him, and his work as Turing will most likely remain a signature performance in what (we can only hope) is a very long career.... Turing’s life story is inherently cinematic, and it certainly deserves to be seen, but Cumberbatch is the main event here, making something almost impossible (capturing such a man as Turing in a tidy two-hour package) look easy, important, and appropriately imperfect.

Kate Erbland, Film School Rejects’ review of The Imitation Game

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And yes, for those who keep track of these annual marathons, it is (or should be) an Oscar contender. Picture, director, screenplay, supporting actress and actor all seem to be in play. Particularly Best Actor – yes, "Cumberbitches" – for Benedict Cumberbatch's calculated, lean, strong and confident portrayal of brilliant mathematician Alan Turing.... The Imitation Game, to me, takes Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock persona and writes it large for an awards-contending role. That’s not a bad thing. With his mannerisms, there are roles that he is tailored to play. Turing more is an example of Cumberbatch doing what he does better than anyone else. The race-the-clock code-breaking thriller wraps itself around the actor’s autistic, auteur personality – and everyone benefits because of it. It’s Cumberbatch’s show...

Sean O'Connell, Cinema Blend's review of The Imitation Game

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...Tyldum grants us access to specific turning points in Turing's life with Benedict Cumberbatch inhabiting the genius mathematician and cryptographer with what may be the best performance of his career. In a film entrenched in secrets, Cumberbatch is forced to play things close to the vest, though Turing isn't without his eccentricities. Both antisocial and straight forward, there are a range of emotions and character peculiarities Cumberbatch must manage without taking it too far and that could have happened so easily.

Brad Brevet, RopeofSilicon.com's review of The Imitation Game

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Benedict Cumberbatch is odds-on to be nominated for an Oscar (at the very least) for his brilliant turn as Alan Turing, the Second World War code-breaker who in 1951 was convicted for gross indecency over a homosexual act. It’s the performance of his career in what is also the best British film of the year.

Kaleem Aftab, The Independent’s review of The Imitation Game

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The Cumberbitches will be pleased. If you've never heard of the "Cumberbitches," they're the online worshippers/fans of one Benedict Cumberbatch, the English actor best known in the States for playing Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness and for recently winning an Emmy for his work as the titular detective on BBC's Sherlock. As an actor, he's refined and debonair, exuding the balance of ruggedness, delicateness, and slight quirkiness that only Brits with names like Cumberbatch and Hiddleston can do so effortlessly; as an unlikely heartthrob, he makes the weird-looking Robert Pattinson's rise to pin-up hunk seem logical. All of that has turned Cumberbatch into the Internet's male answer to Anna Kendrick, only rivaled by Chris Pratt. And by year's end, even your out-of-touch mother will know his name. Come Academy Awards season, Benedict Cumberbatch will be all the rage thanks to The Imitation Game, one of this year's textbook Oscar bait movies.... Once Tyldum fully embraces The Imitation Game's in-the-closet subplot as its driving force, Cumberbatch really breaks free, no Ariana. That's when you'll start letting the waterworks out. At yesterday's TIFF screening, two grown men, seated on both sides of me, audibly cried like your little sister watching The Fault in Our Stars during one of The Imitation Game's closing scenes. They lost it during a teary-eyed breakdown for Turing in which Cumberbatch shows why all of The Imitation Game's early Oscar buzz is, for once, not just gun-jumping hyperbole. It's the scene they'll use—if the nod does happen—after his name gets announced in the Academy Awards broadcast. Years from now, it's what we'll all look back on as the moment when we all became Cumberbitches.

Matt Barone, Complex's review of The Imitation Game

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Cumberbatch will break your heart...

Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times’ review of The Imitation Game

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...Cumberbatch is extraordinary...

Brian Formo, Crave Online’s review of The Imitation Game

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This is Benedict Cumberbatch at the top of his game, offering a elegant curtness driven by discovery and damaged by societal standards. His Turing exists deep in a cavern of the mind — when scribbling notes at his desk or sipping beer at the pub, he's often displaced from the present, a feeling Cumberbatch can convey with whiplashed reactions. The joke is a great actor can read the phone book and turn it into poetry, but that's not far off from what The Imitation Game serves up, as Turing details his number-crunching plans.... This is Benedict Cumberbatch at the top of his game, offering a elegant curtness driven by discovery and damaged by societal standards. His Turing exists deep in a cavern of the mind — when scribbling notes at his desk or sipping beer at the pub, he's often displaced from the present, a feeling Cumberbatch can convey with whiplashed reactions. The joke is a great actor can read the phone book and turn it into poetry, but that's not far off from what The Imitation Game serves up, as Turing details his number-crunching plans.

Matt Patches, IGN's review of The Imitation Game

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The intrigue and intensity of the war and espionage plot are compelling, but Cumberbatch captivates as Turing. As characters like Sherlock and Julian Assange, Cumberbatch has made a career out of playing tortured geniuses - brilliant, arrogant, men prone to alienating both friends and enemies alike. With these characters, the idea is to be in awe of their brilliance as their brains move ten times faster than everyone in the room. The Turing character, however, is given far more depth. His ticks and bad social cues are unpacked, revealing a man who uses logic and mathematics as a way to connect with other people.

Zeba Blay, Digital Spy's review of The Imitation Game

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Cumberbatch is an ideal Turing, balancing his initially icy demeanor with a gradual awakening to the consequences of his work, all the while he's forced to hide who he really is with the threat being that he'd be sent to jail even though he could possibly help win the war. It's alternately uplifting, in that Turing has able to defeat all the odds and make an enormous contribution to history, and tragic, with his downfall and treatment by the authorities being inconceivable now. ...a nomination for Cumberbatch seems likely.

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo.com's review of The Imitation Game

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In countless roles, Cumberbatch has proved to be a master of portraying slightly odd, powerfully intelligent individuals, so even if his Turing isn’t particularly novel, he flashes his considerable skill yet again. And he’s adept at conveying Turing’s brittle emotional state, that sense that his intimidating intellect is his way of shielding his intimacy issues.

Tim Grierson, ScreenDaily.com’s review of The Imitation Game