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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Dec 09, 2011
R, 2 hr. 8 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt, Simon McBurney, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Rated: R
Running Time: 2 hr. 8 min.
Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Drama
Theater Release: Dec 09, 2011
DVD Release: Mar 20, 2012
Synopsis: Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government - which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets. -- (C) Focus Features

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    The film has intrigues, shootings, infidelities and clues -- lots of clues -- which we ponder, along with the poker-faced Smiley, played with Oscar-nominated perfection by Gary Oldman.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    Ultimately, though, it is very much Oldman's film, thanks to a restrained tour de force performance. Smiley is weathered, worn and beaten down by life, but he's also a quiet, sure force of something that resembles good.
  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    "Tinker" radically -- superlatively -- condenses John Le Carré's classic novel, which could scarcely be bounded by seven hourlong episodes in the 1979 BBC adaptation.
  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
    Just watching Gary Oldman and his trenchcoated brethren march down the damp, ill-lit streets of Cold War London is enough to make you shiver.
  • Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
    These guys make proper English diction as compelling as a gunfight, and "Tinker Tailor" as satisfying as any shoot-'em-up using real bullets instead of words to get its point across.
  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
    This superb remake has the inevitable look of a period piece, a smoke-filled rendering of things past. However, thanks to Tomas Alfredson's direction, a taut screenplay, and a uniformly brilliant cast, the film also retains its contemporary relevance.
  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star
    A movie of chain smokers and whisperers, of grey skies and glum expressions, of rattling tea cups and rotary-dialed telephones.
  • Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
    It's a 1970s story told in 1970s style, an unrepentant un-reboot so old school that it feels subversively new.
  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe
    In its attention to detail and awareness of betrayals both political and human, "Tinker Tailor'' is a movie for grown-ups.
  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins to seem phlegmatic after a while.
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