Tetris

Name: Tetris
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Released: March 24, 2023
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Anthony Boyle, Ben Miles, Greg Kolpakchi, Ieva Andrejevaite, Matthew Marsh

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Apple TV+ | Release Date: March 24, 2023 | R

Starring: Anthony Boyle, Ben Miles, Greg Kolpakchi, Ieva Andrejevaite, Matthew Marsh, Mezi Atwood, Moyo Akandé, Rick Yune, Roger Allam, Sofya Lebedeva, Taron Egerton, Toby Jones

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Streams on Apple TV+ beginning March 31, 2023

Summary: Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) discovers TETRIS in 1988, and then risks everything by traveling to the Soviet Union, where he joins forces with the original inventor Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov) to bring the iconic video game to the masses. Based on a true story.

Director: Jon S. Baird

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 120 min

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John Kirk

Mar 27, 2023

Tetris is dynamic combination of thriller and historical drama. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Mar 15, 2023

More absorbing than your average streamer fare, but it also makes you wish the film went farther in exploring its ambivalence about the relationship between creative expression and greed. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 17, 2023

The players, the stakes and the milieu make Tetris well worth your time, especially for anyone nostalgic for all the time we wasted on this simple yet elementally addicting game. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Mar 27, 2023

It makes for an entertaining movie, one you can tell is glossing over some details and minutiae. That's probably a good thing overall, but that, and an inability to nail down a consistent tone, leaves it feeling a little incomplete. Read full review

Polygon Michael McWhertor

Apr 4, 2023

Despite Baird and Pink’s best attempts at cinematic tension and surprise twists, this story plays better elsewhere, in the retellings with a firmer grip on reality. Read full review

The Playlist Matthew Monagle

Mar 16, 2023

There’s a lot of potential in a legal thriller set in the days before German reunification and the end of the Cold War, just as there’s potential in a colorful heist movie that upends the formula and makes the illegal legal. But Tetris fails to thread a particularly tricky needle, resulting in a movie that feels more like a failed ‘90s blockbuster than anything else. Read full review

Steven Scaife

Mar 27, 2023

There’s a riveting story somewhere here about the crumbling of the Soviet Union and the stranglehold of capitalism on ’80s culture, but Tetris never quite locates it. Read full review

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MuriloLeite

Mar 31, 2023

Filme surpreendemente divertido que prende sua atenção quanto mais progride em sua narrativa, que certamente contém elementos ficcionais adicionados como tempero (como o próprio Rogers admitiu em uma entrevista). Estética boa, por alguns momentos mistura um design pixelado em pequenos cortesFilme surpreendemente divertido que prende sua atenção quanto mais progride em sua narrativa, que certamente contém elementos ficcionais adicionados como tempero (como o próprio Rogers admitiu em uma entrevista). Estética boa, por alguns momentos mistura um design pixelado em pequenos cortes - uma "brincadeira" interessante.… Expand

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kakojasonkiller

Apr 14, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. One of the most intense and crazy movies released this year super amazing and great film to watch… Expand