Storyline
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
Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy, David Dencik, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Hurt, Kathy Burke, Colin Firth, Stephen Graham, Simon McBurney, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Arthur Nightingale, Mucsi Zoltán, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Laura Carmichael, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Peter O'Connor, Roger Lloyd Pack, Stuart Graham, Jamie Thomas King, Philip Martin Brown, Christian McKay, Rupert Procter, Linda Marlowe, Michael Sarne, Katrina Vasilieva, John le Carré
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Reviews
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
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
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.
