“As closer inspection will confirm, there are crevices in the world in which extraordinary people do extraordinary things while the rest of us carelessly, obliviously, carry on unaware. Wordplay dives into one such crevice – the world of Crossword puzzles – and in flitting between conversations with crossword creators, modest fans, ardent decipherers, Tournament champions, and Tournament contenders, and in its gripping, elegantly paced build-up to the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle face-off, it delivers an unabashedly glee-inducing 94 minutes,” writes MYTHILY MEHER....[Read More]

Also reviewed: BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM sizes up the oxymoronic curiosity of ‘German Jewish comedy’ Go For Zucker. Coverage continues under The Festival Reader with forthcoming impressions on The African Queen, Time to Leave and more.