Synopsis
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
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Cast
- Philip Seymour HoffmanGünther Bachmann
- Willem DafoeTommy Brue
- Robin WrightMartha Sullivan
- Rachel McAdamsAnnabel Richter
- Grigoriy DobryginIssa Karpov
- Homayoun ErshadiAbdullah
- Nina HossIrna Frey
- Daniel BrühlMaximilian
- Herbert GrönemeyerMichael Axelrod
- Mehdi DehbiJamal
Recommendations
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Village Voice
A Most Wanted Man is simply a complex tale superbly told, with time for nuance and to soak in its mysteries. - 83
Film.com
While the final act might not surprise or stun, it does feature some classic le Carre movements, some trademark Corbijn ease, and a terrifying Hoffman bellowing at the sky – not so bad for just another spy film. - 80
Variety
Corbijn succeeds here in large part because his attention to nuance and detail so fully complements that of the German operatives at the story’s core. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Crackles with a jigsaw-puzzle intelligence and features a superbly subtle lead performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who single-handedly gooses the post-9/11 procedural through some of its slower patches. - 75
Slant Magazine
Anton Corbijn constructs a stifling world of shadowy surveillance and intersecting national interests, building on John Le Carré's sense of moral and emotional exhaustion. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The story is a jigsaw puzzle in which all the pieces are of an indistinguishable gray, making fitting them together a tricky matter. - 70
The Dissolve
A Most Wanted Man is a cold film that examines its characters from a clinical distance, but its iciness gives way to raw emotion in a powerful final sequence. - 67
The Playlist
The problem isn’t quite that the film is short on thrills (there is a paucity; the first adrenaline racing sequences don’t arrive until about an hour in), it’s that it’s not quite a character piece either.
