PI (1998)

[PI] (R) Just about anyone who has attended a student film festival will recognize the blistering visual style and insane-in-the-brain paranoid atmosphere of Darren Aronofsky's first feature. Max Cohen (Sean Gullette), a febrile mathematics junkie, skulks through the streets, alleys, and fluorescent subway tunnels of Manhattan, obsessed with uncovering the secret number system that governs...everything. [Pi] could be a cybergeek version of Taxi Driver. The movie's freakazoid intensity gets to you, but there's something at once cramped and show-offy in Aronofsky's refusal to even slighty vary its atmosphere of shock-corridor burnout. B