60
This deflating documentary gives up its quest for answers too easily.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Gripping, suspenseful, and spiced with fascinating information about the long history of chess between human and mechanical opponents.
60
Game Over's brazen lopsidedness may diminish its credibility, but it taps into the essence of all conspiracy theories-the desperate desire to believe.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Tells a gripping story that resonates with numerous subtexts.
75
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Aside from conspiracy theories, Kasparov's undoing inspires a fascinating discourse on genius, competition, humanity and the ghost in the machine.
38
No one in the film offers a shred of real proof that IBM cheated.
75
Fairly suspenseful.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The competition between man and machine is fogged by distrust and obfuscation. And for now, the result is a draw.
70
In spite of clunky effects and often extraordinarily ugly video footage, Game Over works very well just as a sports doc.
70
Though it never disguises its sympathies for Kasparov and contempt for a powerful corporation's machinations, documentary is finally a speculation on the limits of the human mind and how truth can never be fully known.