Particle Fever

...succeeds in expressing the significance of what’s happening... And that’s better than fine, really: It’s a delight to watch clearly brilliant people work on a project that they put so much stock in.

...not just accessible but fun, with a surprisingly emotional payoff at the end.

Levinson, along with editor Walter Murch, subtly rhymes the playing of the piano with the formulation of a robust algorithm without forcefully outlining the film's themes, lifting these passages into something almost philosophical.

...a fascinating, intangible, vastly complex story of what it means to discover the Higgs boson, specifically, what it means for a fascinating, emotional, wholly appealing assembly of scientists.

...a movie so mind-bending you can almost feel your brain cells growing as you're watching it...