Asking bold questions about the consequences of retaliation and its slippery slope, the film neither preaches about nor ignores the current geopolitical nightmare yet manages to be incredibly entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2024

Avoids making moral judgments or taking sides, preferring to allow the audience to come to their own conclusions.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Nail-biting suspense at every turn.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Scott is great, as usual, at flashy pyrotechnics, but action fans will probably lose patience with all the tangled plotting.

| Nov 15, 2020

Rises above the mediocrity of its storyline thanks largely to its ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 3, 2020

Body of Lies, on the whole, is a retrograde fantasy. Its characters are unconvincing inventions.

| Sep 2, 2020

Body of Lies is a well-made film, but lacks the emotional impact required to keep its audience interested.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 15, 2019

The action sequences lack pizzazz and feel decidedly old-hat for Scott.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

A revealing, original and extremely dramatic film... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2018

It's James Bond via today's headlines, which should, I suppose, at least make it feel very now, but it doesn't. There is nothing in this you haven't seen before, and oodles that you have.

| Jan 30, 2018

The film's veracity is undermined by its compulsive use of glib soundbites. Not to mention an over-wound plot that begs disbelief.

| Dec 27, 2017

Quite frankly, it was a waste of two talented actors.

| Original Score: C | Sep 12, 2017

Director Ridley Scott makes Body of Lies a visually stylish film that also has scenes of incredible carnage and wince-inducing torture.

| Original Score: B | Aug 17, 2017

A compelling, nail-biting spy thriller.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 16, 2013

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It has none of the sweep of, say, Syriana, as if that mattered to the audience it's gunning for.

| Aug 15, 2011

| Original Score: A- | May 6, 2011

Russell Crowe has finally realised he's just an ordinary fat guy now, and taken a role he can accurately portray.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2011

...[Ridley] Scott's most entertaining and involving effort since 2001's Black Hawk Down.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 21, 2010