JamesG
12-09-2011, 06:03 PM
Movie Reviews: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan writes in his review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that its director, Tomas Alfredson:
“has come up with a film that is endlessly rich in incident, atmosphere and personality, a film that leaves us hanging on by the barest skin of our teeth as we try to figure out who is doing what to whom and why. The spy trade doesn’t get much more exciting than this.”
He concludes, “It's an enormously impressive piece of work.”
Claudia Puig in USA Today calls Gary Oldman's performance:
“wonderfully nuanced.”
Kyle Smith in the New York Post writes:
“The cast is uniformly excellent, but as the ringleader of the Circus, Oldman owns the proceedings. No film this year left me hungrier for a sequel.”
Manohla Dargis in the New York Times calls it:
“a pleasurably sly and involving puzzler — a mystery about mysteries within mysteries.”
Joe Morgenstern writes in the Wall Street Journal:
“What makes the movie marvelous is … unerringly subtle yet precise direction plus a literate script with dramatic energy, a delicate tone and an exceptional cast.”
-IMDB News
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan writes in his review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that its director, Tomas Alfredson:
“has come up with a film that is endlessly rich in incident, atmosphere and personality, a film that leaves us hanging on by the barest skin of our teeth as we try to figure out who is doing what to whom and why. The spy trade doesn’t get much more exciting than this.”
He concludes, “It's an enormously impressive piece of work.”
Claudia Puig in USA Today calls Gary Oldman's performance:
“wonderfully nuanced.”
Kyle Smith in the New York Post writes:
“The cast is uniformly excellent, but as the ringleader of the Circus, Oldman owns the proceedings. No film this year left me hungrier for a sequel.”
Manohla Dargis in the New York Times calls it:
“a pleasurably sly and involving puzzler — a mystery about mysteries within mysteries.”
Joe Morgenstern writes in the Wall Street Journal:
“What makes the movie marvelous is … unerringly subtle yet precise direction plus a literate script with dramatic energy, a delicate tone and an exceptional cast.”
-IMDB News