Director Terry Gilliam’s madcap visual style vibrates through “The Zero Theorem.” His penchant for outsider characters is there, too. The missing ingredient in Gilliam’s and screenwriter Pat Rushin’s ...

The opening images of “The Zero Theorem” could hardly be more arresting: a man, naked and hairless, sits in front of an oversize computer screen in surroundings that are at once archaic and futuristic ...