The Imitation Game, film review: Benedict Cumberbatch is superb as cryptanalyst Alan Turing but the film is contradictory
"Did he really deserve a place in here?" a mourner at St. Paul's Cathedral asks of T.E. Lawrence at the beginning of Lawrence Of Arabia. David Lean's epic argued the case that Lawrence, for all his foibles, was worthy of being celebrated alongside other great British heroes. The Imitation Game, does something similar for Alan Turing, the brilliant cryptanalyst and mathematician credited with cracking the codes of the…