Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Imitation Game, a drama about British genius Alan Turing. Here's Ryan's review...

Alan Turing was among the most important British thinkers of the 20th century, yet the story of his life only fully emerged decades after his death. Turing's work during World War II, where he led a team responsible for cracking Germany's coded communications, played a huge part in the Allied victory, and his pioneering achievements in computer science are still being felt today.

Beginning in 1941, The Imitation Game introduces the 27-year-old Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose mathematical genius far outstrips his interpersonal skills. Stationed at Bletchley Park in the south of England, Turing leads a team of linguists, problem solvers and mathematicians whose job is to crack the unfeasibly complex communications code used by the Nazis. As conventional attempts to break the code prove fruitless, Turing proposes a radical new approach: construct a code-breaking...