Adapted from Ben Macintyre’s book, the screenplay is a brisk and jolly affair, taking gamey delight in comparing the art of espionage to the fibs of professional storytellers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

It is quite a moving story. Colin Firth [and the ensemble] do really solid, good work here.

| May 21, 2022

It’s exactly the kind of well-rounded, satisfying movie which works on all levels but doesn’t particularly dazzle on any – and it doesn’t have to because it does what it needs to do.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2022

It tells a fascinating tale, snappily.

| May 15, 2022

Operation Mincemeat is a genuine surprise package -- and prompts nostalgia, if not for the war, then for an almost equally distant era of skilfully crafted entertainment.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 14, 2022

Firth and Macfadyen (hey, they’ve both played Mr. Darcy!) are terrific together as two men who really don’t like each other, don’t trust each other and have different ways of trying to connect with Jean.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2022

For something that unfolds like a heist movie about the laundering of misinformation, the endless clickety-clack of typewriters simply isn’t able to generate the kind of heart-in-your-throat suspense it needs to keep the plot kicking along.

| Original Score: C+ | May 13, 2022

I have a sweet tooth for this sort of historical re-enactment when it’s done well... and “Operation Mincemeat” is well done without being overdone.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2022

Not quite sure where to land between sentiment and broad farce, even as its actors do their valiant best with the well-trod material.

| Original Score: C+ | May 13, 2022

Sometimes a shamelessly retro wartime romance is all the escape you need and Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen add class and wicked humor to this fact-based WW2 spy thriller about how British intelligence used a corpse to put one over on Hitler.

| May 13, 2022

A civilized shell game that accomplishes its mission, more or less in the spirit of how things actually got made up and went down.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2022

The most preposterous thing about “Operation Mincemeat”: that such remarkable material could make for such a plodding movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 12, 2022

It's hard to go wrong with this cast and source material, adapted by writer Michelle Ashford from a book by Ben Macintyre. But Operation Mincemeat nevertheless shines in its impeccable look and understated portrayals of these unlikely heroes.

| May 12, 2022

As the leading men spar over Jean (yawn) and their bond is further threatened by a superior officer with Red Scare accusations, we’re expected to lose ourselves in their human squabbles.

| May 12, 2022

The story itself is so absurd and is told with enough surprises and dry humor that it’s constantly engaging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2022

It’s a true story so strange it makes you wonder what other untold chapters of World War remain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2022

A far more decorous affair than its macho-burger title would suggest, this is a classy production with a first-rate ensemble cast, splicing the story’s intrigue with a poignant vein of melodrama.

| May 9, 2022

An altogether rewarding experience even for those viewers who traditionally eschew wartime dramas.

| Original Score: B+ | May 8, 2022

[It] works beautifully as a romance, [and] it’s also a cracking espionage caper.

| May 6, 2022

I’ll rate it four Vs for Victory.

| May 6, 2022