Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    2011

    Synopsis

    In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

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    Cast

    • Gary OldmanGeorge Smiley
    • Colin FirthBill Haydon
    • Tom HardyRicki Tarr
    • John HurtControl
    • Toby JonesPercy Alleline
    • Mark StrongJim Prideaux
    • Benedict CumberbatchPeter Guillam
    • Ciarán HindsRoy Bland
    • David DencikToby Esterhase
    • Kathy BurkeConnie Sachs

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    • 100

      Empire

      Utterly absorbing, extremely smart and - considering this is a sad, shabby, drably grey-green world of obsessives, misfits, misdirection, disillusionment, self-delusion and treachery - quite beautifully executed.
    • 100

      Time Out

      The Cold War is over, but director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) and his collaborators have brought those suspicion-fueled days to vivid life in this masterful adaptation of John le Carré's beloved 1974 spy novel.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      I had to see the new version twice to realize that there's so much to appreciate about this multilayered production.
    • 90

      Variety

      An inventive, meaty distillation of Le Carre's 1974 novel, picture turns hero George Smiley's hunt for a mole within Blighty's MI6 into an incisive examination of Cold War ethics, rich in both contempo resonance and elegiac melancholy.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      Order may be restored to the Circus, the "bad" elements weeded out, but in the jaundiced world the film has spent the last two hours so effectively delineating, the barriers between good and evil have been shown to be essentially meaningless.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      It is one of the few films so visually absorbing, felicitous shot after shot, that its emotional coldness is noticed only at the end, when all the plot twists are unraveled in a solid piece of thinking-man's entertainment for upmarket thriller audiences.
    • 80

      Time

      At two hours, the film version is a third the miniseries' length, requiring severe compression by screenwriters Peter Straughan (The Debt) and Bridget O'Connor, which they've accomplished smartly.
    • 80

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the intellectual action flick of your dreams.

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