**Behind a great writer, there's a genius editor!** I felt the title 'Genius' was not appropriate for how the story revolved in the film. It was more like a commitment and priority given to those undertaking than any other stuffs and that's why it looked like a genius from others eyes. Though I won't deny the experience always comes very handy. This film tells the story of ant editor and how he meets one of the best writers of his time. But they two together give the literature world some masterpiece works and that's the tale the film very genuinely presented to us. This story takes place around the 1930s. An enthusiastic writer and a genius editor develop a strong bond, especially from their professional, but it goes beyond that. When both the families struggle while these two men completely dissolved with their works. So the takes from different angles about the different issues nicely revealed. This biographical film is nothing short for any inspiration if you are looking for some. If you are a book lover, then this is not to be missed, especially if you have read the books by Thomas Wolfe. It's unbelievable that the film was made by a first time director. The actors, including the Colin Firth and Jude Law in the major roles was exceptionally good. We have seen many great films about the authors, so for a difference this film focused on an editor. It stands on the line of Bryan Cranston's 'Trumbo'. I hope you won't miss it, because it is so good if you appreciate the real life achievers, even those standing behind someone's achievements. _8/10_

This is one of Jude Law's better characterisations as he plays troubled writer Thomas Wolfe. His almost biblical tomes don't exactly excite most literary agents but the well established Max Perkins (Colin Firth) bucks that trend by giving him a chance. Now there are some editorial caveats to this commission - not least some substantial shaving of hundreds of the pages, but the two start to work together building a relationship that sees Wolfe focus and succeed. That success, of course, is a beast with two heads and when the next book comes along - weighing in at some 5,000 pages - the pair must take a hatchet to the work and that starts the writer on a spiral of bitterness and resentment. Perhaps it's only his adoring "Aline" (Nicole Kidman) who can stop his inevitable path to self destruction? Meantime, it falls to Mrs Perkins (Laura Linney) to ensure that her husband doesn't follow his friend into the emotional doldrums - no easy task. This is quite an interesting, if speculative, biopic of a man obsessed. With success, yes - but also with his own ideals of poetry and storytelling and it's that compulsion that tests every relationship he ever has. Law exudes some of that frustration effectively here, well foiled by an understated effort from Firth. There are few cameos from Guy Pearce (F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Dominic West (Ernest Hemingway) to put a little more meat on the bones and to help illustrate just how fickle their success could be whilst John Logan's screenplay keeps the dialogue tight.