Synopsis
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
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Cast
- Nicole KidmanSilvia Broome
- Sean PennTobin Keller
- Catherine KeenerDot Woods
- Jesper ChristensenNils Lud
- Yvan AttalPhilippe
- Earl CameronZuwanie
- George HarrisKuman-Kuman
- Michael WrightMarcus
- Clyde KusatsuPolice Chief Lee Wu
- Eric KeenleysideRory Robb
Recommendations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Thrillers don't get much smarter than The Interpreter. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
An elegant adventure of a different kind. - 80
Variety
Coolly absorbing without being pulse-quickening. - 75
Rolling Stone
The Interpreter bristles with the smart, steadily engrossing tension that marked such 1970s goodies as "All the President's Men," "The Parallax View" and Pollack's own "Three Days of the Condor." - 70
Village Voice
The Kidman character is an exotic--and even unlikely--creature, usefully fueling Penn's annoyed but fascinated incredulity. - 60
Empire
Solid, mature and finely acted, but intermittently daft. - 60
The New Yorker
The Interpreter is long and tangled, the score is yet another drownout from the thundering James Newton Howard, and the avowed thoughtfulness--about sub-Saharan politics, about the clashing commitments to peace and justice, about the kinship of damaged souls--is at once laudable and vaporous. - 60
Time
There's enough narrative for three fine films. But not enough for The Interpreter. The thriller pieces feel assembled rather than organic.
