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

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

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

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

Tense, fascinating, worthwhile.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Aug 31, 2007

Despite a career-best turn from Chris Cooper, however, Breach is a weirdly muted affair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2007

Cold and cerebral, with simmering suspense rather than outright excitement, this is a feel-the-quality-of-the-acting movie. It can't answer all sorts of questions, but does take a scary mug shot of a subtle monster.

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

Ultimately, the movie soars because of the inspired casting of Chris Cooper as Hanssen.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2007

(Chris Cooper)is the principal reason why this unspectacular, low-key study of the Hanssen national security fiasco is so effective.

| Feb 23, 2007

Cooper is superb, hard as granite, dense as an imploding black hole.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 19, 2007

When your false spy rings the truest, there's a problem.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 17, 2007

Ray's impression of the real Hanssen remains frighteningly opaque.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 17, 2007

Ray's careful emphasis on authenticity over thrills and psychology over action is impeded by this narrative's narrow window: there's so much we can't know about what Hanssen did and why.

| Feb 17, 2007

A well-paced, intelligent thriller that's easily the most pleasant surprise of the year so far.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2007

An uncompromising study in the gradual decay of a soul.

| Feb 16, 2007

Though you know from the start just how it's going to end, Breach, based on the true story of a treasonous FBI operative, is an edge-of-the-seat thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2007

Breach is a movie tailor-made for the age of intelligence failure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2007

Subtle, complex, bleakly funny at times, but always utterly enveloping, one of the great studies in profoundly abnormal psychology.

| Feb 16, 2007

One of the best elements of this lean, tense and coolly believable story about the internal hunt for FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen is how its visual style and dearth of formulaic structural ingredients run counter to almost any other spy movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 16, 2007