WWII drama has excellent performances; ok for 15+.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Tom Stoppard's script, inspired by historical events, commands attention with daring, dizzying twists, betrayals and manipulations. An intelligent examination of the dangerous impulse to categorize the unpredictable or unthinkable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 24, 2010

Steeped in the tense atmopshere of Wartime Britain, Michael Apted's semi-Hitchcockian drama centers on the mysteries of code breaking while at the same time relates a noirish tale of love, obsession and betrayal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2005

| Original Score: C | Aug 7, 2004

Tries to wed a wartime spy thriller with a noir mystery involving a femme fatale, which doesn't fully work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2004

O roteiro confuso em certos momentos e a edio (que inclui vrios flashbacks) deixa a desejar, mas, no geral, um filme interessante.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Within a few weeks' time you'd forget ever having seen it at all . . .

| May 16, 2003

For the great turns from Scott, Winslet and Northam and the timely reminder that the greatest acts of heroism are so often unsung, it deserves your attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2002

A cleverly involving, slow-burning dramatic thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

A complicated and intelligent British film with a curious roster of off-screen talent.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Nov 4, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2002

The mystery doesn't revolve solely around guessing who the bad guy is -- there's a historical and personal context to the whole thing -- and the thrills are more cerebral than visceral.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2002

"Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to read another, to divine its intent, to know the enemy." - NY Times.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2002

a History Channel pageant masquerading as a full-blooded film

| Sep 26, 2002

The complex, demanding script tries to cover too many bases at once, but it succeeds better than one might expect.

| Original Score: B | Sep 26, 2002

The sort of film that makes me miss Hitchcock, but also feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet.

Full Review | Original Score: 84/100 | Sep 22, 2002