It's worth remembering this astonishing bit of US history, where a young investigator took down his boss, an FBI agent named Robert Hanssen. These two men are caught between truth and lies and only one of them likes the lie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2025

Cooper works hard to provide any psychological subtext to the story behind the headlines.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 19, 2021

Breach sheds no light on any of the potentially fascinating material. ... The film prides itself on not being able to explain anything about Hanssen's activities.

| Feb 14, 2021

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 9, 2011

The pulse of spy films so rarely comes from such meticulously detailed verbal and body-language suspense. Here, every conversation is a possible trap, inquiries feel like interrogations, responses and reactions could be lethal tells.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

...a slow-paced character study that benefits substantially from Chris Cooper's downright astounding performance...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2009

Muffles suspense and dilutes tension without turning into a distanced approach

| Aug 27, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

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| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 10, 2008

Breach, a slow-burn thriller told from the inside out instead of the outside in, is not a great film. But it could have been. It will have to settle for being simply a very good film.

| Original Score: 7/11 | Feb 28, 2008

Cooper gives a great performance as a man now spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, serving a life sentence without the prospect of probation.

| Sep 8, 2007

Enjoyable, slow-burning thriller with an intelligent script and strong performances from its two leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Breach is slow, but never ponderous, and not at all like your average spy thriller. It has less obvious thrills and more depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Breach rarely treads new ground, but the set pieces are used so sparingly and with such focus on the central characters, the movie reaches a degree of tension you might not think possible.

| Aug 31, 2007

Cooper is always dead-bang on

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 31, 2007

A sombre game of cat-and-mouse. What it lacks in genuine tension it amply compensates in the understated performances of the two leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Intriguing and intelligent, Breach may be too understated for its own good.

| Aug 31, 2007

An interestingly told tale: melancholy, thoughtful, and very un-American.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Chris Cooper, who won an Oscar for his supporting role in Adaptation, gives a brilliant poker-faced performance as Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe is also convincing as O'Neill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Despite a couple of tense set pieces, the suspense needed to ignite this film is disappointingly lacking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2007