Genius (2016)
"Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe."
Critics Score
🎬 54%
(RT: 52%, MC: 56) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Demetri Goritsas as John Wheelock
Is Genius good?
It's divisive. Only 60% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 54%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius. Wikipedia ↗
