Consider the overall picture, and you’re left with a flavourless film that fudges the food for thought it could’ve offered.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

For all the faults of editing and storytelling, Cookson still gives a striking performance.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2020

Though the film tells an intriguing story, director Trevor Nunn's approach is bland while the movie's pace flirts with tedium throughout.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Nov 20, 2020

The result is a movie that might not ever be all that thrilling, but it is never anything other than watchable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

Young Joan, old Joan, Red Joan, blue Joan -- it's all the same here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2020

Red Joan takes an intriguing premise and dilutes it almost beyond recognition into a boring and poorly done romance. Unlike good spy movies, Nunn's dreary history lesson leaves you neither shaken nor stirred.

| Original Score: 2 / 5 | Jul 27, 2020

Red Joan is certainly a watchable curiosity, but as a piece of political discourse, it seems strangely ham-fisted and bland.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2020

A dull telling of a lively true spy yarn.

| Original Score: C | May 26, 2020

Every plot point and every character insight gets delivered with the same manufactured smoothness; the movie is naggingly bland in the way one associates with "respectable" British cinema.

| Mar 10, 2020

Red Joan feels like it was a middling British 온라인카지노추천 drama pilot that ran too long and they sold it as a movie instead.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 10, 2020

The lead actresses are both solid but the direction by Trevor Nunn is dull.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 19, 2019

A spy movie lacking suspense. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 16, 2019

Lindsay Shapero's screenplay bases the spy figure on stereotypes and reduces her difficulties to her romantic relationships, gradually forgetting her complex personality. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 16, 2019

Its conventional if uneven structure keeps the tension mild despite subject matter rife with ethical questions and contemporary resonance.

| Sep 7, 2019

Perhaps Nunn tried to do a bit too much with this film, layering this woman's secret past with themes of feminist and anti-war sentiment. When the film focuses on the characters in the past, it builds a driving thriller tension...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 29, 2019

What one perceives in this movie is a particular passivity and several errors in the development of suspense, melodrama, and almost any appeal related to the spy film, or even the biographical film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 25, 2019

The music... is enough to keep the viewer's curiosity. [Full review in Spaniash]

| Jul 25, 2019

Unintended silliness makes young Joan look foolish for being entranced by them, robbing her of agency when the film is desperate to prove the opposite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2019

Red Joan itself is reportedly based on the story of Melita Norwood, who passed the Soviets' information on the West's nuclear development. Sadly, Norwood's Wikipedia page is more of a thrilling yarn than most of Red Joan.

| Jun 28, 2019

Joan Stanley's story of means and ends opens in 2000 rural Britain, where an elderly Joan is arrested and charged by MI5 with treason, an accusation she vehemently denies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2019