The liberties taken by films purporting to retell real-life stories vary enormously, a new study has found. Is Selma historically accurate? However, the study does not allow for omitted information, simply examining those scenes which the film chooses to include. Only 41.4% of the scenes in Alan Turing movie The Imitation Game were deemed “real”. She praised Selma as “well-researched, accomplished and fair-minded”, while her verdict on The Imitation Game was that it was “as much of a garbled mess as a heap of unbroken code.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2016 13:07 UTC