"...a personal, visionary, hermetic art film par excellence, one that announces the arrival of an exciting and potentially major new talent in Darren Aronofsky,...recalls early David Lynch...as well as Stanley Kubrick...part of the grand historical tradition of works interested in the pursuit of knowldge and theories of existence...."

-Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety

"After a festival ends, one tends to speak about it only in terms of of the top two or three films that were shown there...in the case of Sundance '98, it is clear that those films are "Pi" and "Slam... "

-Variety

"A compelling character study...itchily intelligent."

-The Washington Post

"A feverish anomale, a silvery dream about a young Manhattanite whose obsession with mathematics leads him into crazed confrontations with a mystical Hasidic sect, a Wall Street power firm, and, ultimatley, his own brain...it's cinematic intensity seduces Paul Schrader, who likes his art dark and stern. He leads the charge to give it the Director's Award."

-Entertainment Weekly

"It will be a long night if we don't find a way to aknowledge this film."

-Paul Schrader, at Sundance

"...The latest Wunderkind writer-director, Darren Aronofsky, invites me to see his first feature, "Pi," a sort of mad math thriller. I bring six people and we all love it."

-Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in The New York Times

"Genuine excitement was limited to premieres of films on their way to commercial release anyway...and to rare, bona-fide experimentation (Marc Levin's vigorous "Slam," Darren Aronofsky's wild-eyed "Pi")...Pi is...brilliantly abstruse..."

-Janet Maslin in The New York Times

"An artistic and edgy piece of mystification..."

-The Los Angeles Times

"A dark, compelling, psychological thriller..."

-New York Daily News