But again, there is more good here than bad. Rather, what we have here is a film that was desperately trying to be Oscar worthy, and that perhaps pushes the creative envelope a tad bit too far. Additionally, the movie tells its main tale over the course of more than a decade, which makes for a bit of an odd cinematic journey-but, in my view, none of these issues are so problematic that they greatly take away from the movie. That technique felt a bit forced at times, but at the end of the film it made more sense why it had been used. As it progresses, the plot of the film does meander a bit, including a fast forward to a scene from some 85 years after the majority of the film that is interspersed throughout the rest of the movie. The opening scenes of the film are fairly gory and filled with wartime violence, but fortunately that does not dominate the movie. In fairness, there are a few things that the film could be rightly critiqued for. The film is done in a style that emulates 'Twelve Years A Slave', and as such it deals with topics of slavery and secession in a way that is poignant but also constructive. The movie tells of a counter-rebellion in a Mississippi town during the Civil War, and is based on a true story. As with all scientific research, there is also a risk of publication bias.I'm surprised to see that this movie is currently averaging 6.5/10 stars-I found it to be worthy of an eight, and I even flirted with ranking it even higher. These results are promising, but more research is needed to determine the connection between improved assessment scores and everyday tasks in participants' lives.įuture research should address the risk of inadvertent experimenter bias and the risk of attrition bias in this study, as both the Lumosity and crossword groups had approximately 50% attrition rate. In it, half of the 4,715 participants who completed the study trained five days per week, for fifteen minutes each day on Lumosity while the other half did online crossword puzzles as an active control.Īfter 10 weeks, Lumosity users improved more than the control group on our assessments of working memory, short term memory, processing speed, problem solving, fluid reasoning, and overall cognitive function. Lumos Labs conducted a randomized study of Lumosity brain training and published the results in a peer-reviewed research journal.

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