In Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn’s diligently crafted British caper “Rogue Agent,” the lines between a rakish spy and a dashing lover are blurred in the figure of Robert Freegard.

| Sep 28, 2022

"Perhaps the prurient unravelings of Freegard’s greatest hits is best left to the nonfiction projects, but even with the liberties of narrative adaptation, Lawn and Patterson leave the psychological and emotional depths of this story unexplored."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2022

There was not enough story here to make a real movie.

| Aug 12, 2022

The true-crime tale, anchored by Norton and Arterton, is both classy and chilling on the windy road to the fiend’s comeuppance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2022

Norton is excellent at positing, with glances and unusual reactions, a rather desperate inner life for his character.

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

Plenty fascinated by the abridged version of this saga — bad men are out there — but you’ll wish for that darker, less cleanly shaped telling the more you think about its scarier contours.

| Aug 12, 2022

The film is ultimately a thoughtful study of how anyone, no matter how vulnerable or self-assured, can be fooled by someone who projects confidence and expertise.

| Aug 12, 2022

Rogue Agent doesn’t necessarily offer any conclusions about why people like Freegard are so deeply compelling, but it does use that sensibility to its benefit.

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

Crucially, the script and actors make it all credible, even as the reality has been glamorized, polished up and in all ways been made more glamorous and provocative.

| Aug 11, 2022

The real account of Robert Freegard might have been unbelievable. Its dramatization, however, is preposterous.

| Aug 11, 2022

There’s enough going on in Rogue Agent to have fueled an eight-week PBS mystery series. Economy, in the world of fictionalized espionage, is quite decidedly a virtue.

| Aug 10, 2022