Director Morgan Matthews has a considerable background in documentaries. One of them, 2007’s Beautiful Young Minds, focused on the selection process that a group of talented youngsters – many of them autistic – wen through for the International Mathematical Olympiad. It didn’t take great powers of arithmetic to add up that this would make for a great narrative feature – but crushingly, the end result, Matthew’s X+Y, doesn’t live up to its tremendous real-life inspiration.

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