Award-winning science writer George Overbye of the New York Times reviews “The Theory of Everything, a new film dramatization of the life of Stephen Hawking. Although Overbye praises the acting, he is more critical of the portrayal of Hawkings science: [T]he movie doesn’t deserve any prizes for its drive-by muddling of Dr. Hawking’s scientific work, leaving viewers in the dark about exactly why he is so famous. Instead of showing how he undermined traditional notions of space and time, it panders to religious sensibilities about what his work does or does not say about the existence of God, which in fact is very little.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:11:35 +0000
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