{"id":637652,"date":"2026-06-14T03:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637652\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T03:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:27:19","slug":"excellent-british-historical-drama-with-toby-jones-has-just-landed-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637652\/","title":{"rendered":"“Excellent” British historical drama with Toby Jones has just landed on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Man Who Knew Infinity, the “excellent” British historical drama starring Toby Jones, has just landed a new streaming<\/a> home in the UK. Released theatrically in 2016, the film sees Dev Patel portray Srinivasa Ramanujan, a brilliant East Indian mathematician.<\/p>\n

Set in 1913, the film<\/a> follows Srinivasa as he travels to the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College to work with professor G H Hardy, played by Jeremy Irons. While there, he has to “navigate the labyrinth of academia and racial prejudice”.<\/p>\n

Jones plays mathematician John Edensor Littlewood, a colleague and collaborator of Hardy. He is joined in the cast by Devika Bhise, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally, Arundhati Nag and Shazad Latif, among others. <\/p>\n

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Related: 5 best movies newly added to Netflix, BBC and more including Timothy Spall’s “fantastic” drama<\/a> <\/p>\n

Written and directed by Matthew Brown, the period film was added to Netflix<\/a> in the UK on Thursday (11 June), so subscribers can watch it now. It is also available on HBO Max in the UK, giving you another option.<\/p>\n

The film proved popular with audiences and currently holds a rating of 7.2\/10 on IMDb<\/a> from 67,000 logs, with users praising Patel’s performance. On Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the historical drama has an approval rating of 62% from 129 reviews. <\/p>\n

“It’s also nice to see Dev Patel in yet another excellent film, as this young man seems to have a real knack for picking film projects… As for Irons, he is, as usual, amazing… as is Toby Jones,” wrote one user on IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“There is an underlying message to this story, and whether you’re a man of science or metaphysics or spirituality, you will find satisfaction! Patel and Irons did a splendid job in this film,” penned another<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Related: Netflix is removing Brenda Blethyn’s “perfect” British period drama very soon<\/a><\/p>\n

Another user<\/a> said of the film: “More surprisingly, Dev Patel – after a series of exuberant but lightweight performances – finally proves to be an actor with some depth and range. The film is also deftly directed, with some gorgeous cinematography.”<\/p>\n

“So beautifully directed, enthralling from the very first cut. This is so far the finest performance by Dev Patel… Not a film to watch for the entertainment value only but solely for the essence of film watching,” wrote another<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Man Who Knew Infinity is now available to stream on Netflix. <\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Man Who Knew Infinity, the “excellent” British historical drama starring Toby Jones, has just landed a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147950,149865,379,215346,381,96,190731,1156,2839,215345,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-netflix","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-34bc3008-a280-475f-83f2-b31704635b35","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-toby-jones-british-historical-drama-is-now-on-netflix","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}