I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

What a beautiful movie!

one of my absolute favorites!

Absolutely brilliant

A documentary on the world of crossword puzzles and their builders and solvers could have been quite interesting.The scenes in which we watch a puzzle builder begin work on a crossword puzzle were too brief. There was no coverage of cryptic (often British) crosswords, cryptoquotes or other wordplay.Too bad the movie makers felt that audiences need to see "celebrities" in a documentary of this sort.Also, there are many sources for word puzzles of various kinds. The movie's worshipful attitude toward the New York Times limited the movie's scope, ultimately leading to its failure.

I love a good documentary, and this is certainly that. This profiles puzzler Will Shortz, fans of the New York Times crossword puzzle (including President Bill Clinton, The Indigo Girls, and Jon Stewart), and follows Shortz' national crossword competition and five of the contestants in that competition in 2005. The competition drives a thrilling plot, the competitors are all smart and witty and decent human beings, fair and gracious with each other despite wanting to win, and there is a lot of humor and intellectual stimulation here, and I learned a bit about constructing crossword puzzles, which I've tried to do and failed at before, but now I know a couple tricks and may try again. I liked this tremendously, though I am willing to guess that people who don't love puzzles and games might not like it as much as I did. A+

I watched this because I love crosswords (I'm an "INK-er" myself, pencils are for the weak! ;D ), but I worried it wouldn't be that interesting. The fact that Jon Stewart had a cameo sealed it for me - so I rented it.I actually enjoyed it a lot. Personally, I thought there was too much focus on Will Shortz and "NEW YORK TIMES" (as if they're the only ones that do crosswords). I do the NY Times (at least M-TH) occasionally, but I think Mearle Reagle is the best crossword constructor. I like his clues and his humor. I was really glad the movie featured him! Will Shortz just edits other people's puzzles, so I wish they'd featured more of the creators talking about how they make the puzzles.I learned a lot, I hadn't realized how they make the puzzles or that the patterns are mirror images. I think I enjoyed the earlier part of the film more than the second half that focused on the tournament. I enjoyed meeting the puzzlers (even that self-hating obnoxious whiny woman -was she really the only female in the top 20?) If I was still trapped in CT I would consider going to the next tournament.I thought they had a good mix of people. Not just throwing in celebrities for no reason or not including 'regular' people. It's true that most of the people featured were Caucasian and probably middle-upper class - but if that is who is doing the puzzles and going to the tournament, you can hardly fault the film makers. Jon Stewart was of course darling - I was amused to see he too is an INK-er. (He's mentioned that he proposed to his wife using a crossword puzzle.) Seeing Bill Clinton solving a weekend NYT & using it as an analogy for politics was interesting (& yet depressing as it pointed out the disparity in intelligence levels of him & Bushie JR.)In all a movie I would recommend to anyone that likes puzzles. (Not sure if non-gamers would enjoy, but I would still encourage them to try it out.)P.S. Did anyone else feel bad for Will Shortz & Merl Reagle - if they're designing all the puzzles and running the tournament, when do they get to play??

I'm shaking my head right now as I notice the high rating for this documentary. I like crossword puzzles maybe like once a year but was very amazed by those who love it. I mean love it. Slamming their headphones when they find out they screwed up only made me laugh. It was interesting to see Mike Mussina talk about his experience with crossword puzzles. And perhaps it was interesting to know that some people can do them in under two minutes but what else can you cram in 80 minutes. It seemed like they just talked about the same old stuff for 60 minutes than they had the competition for 20 minutes.I guess you can say that I don't get it but others will. A decent documentary and you will learn useless things but for entertainment, it was way below average in my eyes.