Synopsis
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
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Cast
- Chris PineHenry Pelham
- Thandiwe NewtonCelia Harrison
- Jonathan PryceBill Compton
- Laurence FishburneVick Wallinger
- Corey JohnsonKarl Stein
- Jonjo O'NeillErnst Pul
- Ahd KamelLeila Maloof
- David DawsonOwen Lassiter
- Nasser MemarziaMohammed Dudayev
- Orli ShukaIlyas Shishani
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
Maybe a little unexpectedly, Amazon Studios have given us a very watchable and classily upscale espionage drama-thriller in the spirit of John le Carré. - 75
IndieWire
Come for the espionage thrills, stay for the wrenching dissection of what it means to really love someone. That’s what really cuts deep. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Looking back over All the Old Knives, it might be more accurate to call it a spy romance, except that makes it sound titillating. Better to say it’s a movie about the consequences of trying to stay human while working in the spy business. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The storytelling moves along at a steady hum, maintaining intrigue as different pieces of the puzzle come together. - 70
Screen Daily
It is silkily persuasive in its own hot-sleuthy way. - 70
Variety
I’m glad to report that All the Old Knives is a minor but engrossing genre movie: tightly wound, more or less rooted in the real world, with taut dialogue and espionage gambits that fall just this side of contrived. It’s not John le Carré, but it’s not thinly patched together pulp either. - 70
Arizona Republic
The twists are somewhat predictable; a twist within a twist is reasonably satisfying. But this is the kind of movie that relies less on surprises than chemistry. And Pine and Newton’s is fine, nothing more. In fact their conversation is far more magnetic than their romantic scenes. - 65
Slashfilm
At the end of the day, however, one will walk away satisfied with the characters and moved by a bleak and tragic ending, but left with little to carry in their memory. Ironically, a film about the painful suspicions of the past and the aching nature of memory is largely unmemorable.
