Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Reviews

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• when all the plot twists are unraveled in a solid piece of thinking-man's entertainment for upmarket thriller audiences

  by Deborah Young [Hollywood Reporter ]

• viewers are rewarded with a moody, layered and involving thriller

  Review rate : C by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• typical of Alfredson's film, which is obliged, by its two-hour duration, to keep things crisp

  by Anthony Lane [New Yorker ]

• this challenging movie freezes you to the edge of your seat, adrenalized with terror and pity

  by Kathleen Murphy [MSN Movies ]

• stories have no room for mindless action; they are heavily plot-driven

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• multi-stranded, timeframe-skipping plotline

  by Dana Stevens [Slate ]

• more explicit regarding various characters' sexual proclivities than was the miniseries

  by J. Hoberman [Village Voice ]

• like the characters within the story who are all haunted by the past, the film itself has its ghosts

  by Leslie Felperin [Variety ]

• it is as if the idea of theme itself is too ambitious, too glamorous for this cadre of small men in shabby surroundings in a dingy decade

  Review rate : C+ by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]

• gives a performance that is flawless in every detail

  Review rate : C+ by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• given the sadness that cloaks the story's many watchers, feels chilling

  by Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]

• enormously impressive piece of work, and that's news too good to stay secret for long

  Review rate : B by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]

• dialogue-heavy characters lend themselves more readily to episodic television than to a splashy Hollywood movie beamed

  by Ella Taylor [NPR ]

• complicated narrative even more difficult to decode

  Review rate : B+ by Peter Rainer [Christian Science Monitor ]

• a riveting spy thriller, an emotional puzzle as much as a logical one

  Review rate : B+ by William Goss [Film.com ]

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