Argylle certainly has personality (and cats).

A long-winded, twist-heavy espionage thriller, starring and directed by Lee Jung-jae, with solid action in the middle.

A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s first period piece, set in 1940s Japan, features a riveting, tour-de-force performance by Yu Aoi.

Probably one of the weakest entries in the usually worthwhile filmography of the critically revered director Olivier Assayas.

It recently came out that the story of James B. Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who negotiated the release of American spy plane pilot Gary Francis Powers from the Soviet Union in 1960, was almost made into a 1965 movie starring Gregory Peck as Donovan. That would have made perfect sense—the role is about as morally […]

Saeed Torres is no James Bond. A middle-aged man working as a school chef, he fits no stereotype of a spy. But in the fall of 2011, he revealed to David Sutcliffe and Lyric Cabral that he was a “civilian operative” working for the F.B.I. The filmmakers initially present him in a way that makes […]

Written and Directed by Paul Schrader Produced by Jason Gandhi Released by Lionsgate USA. 94 min. Rated R With Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi, Claudius Peters, and Adetomiwa Edun I almost wish I didn’t know the circumstances surrounding the post-production and release of Dying of the Light, which is advertised […]

Directed by Morten Tyldum Produced by Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman Written by Graham Moore, based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Released by the Weinstein Company USA/UK. 114 min. Rated R With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, and Mark […]