The Imitation Game (2014)

Adapted by first-time feature writer Graham Moore from Andrew Hodges’ 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma, the screenplay derives the bulk of its drama from Turing’s covert stint at Bletchley Park, the WWII code-breakers’ compound in Buckinghamshire. In reality, Turing’s electromechanical machine, the Bombe, was decoding Nazi U-boat fleet messages encoded by the German cipher machine Enigma within weeks of his arrival. But the film stretches out this time, adding episodes of initial resistance to Turing’s ideas and personality, and then turning it into a race against the clock to save British lives. Read the full review here.