...a decent-enough piece of work that mostly feels like it should be much, much better.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2023

Moe Berg's story deserved a better movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Though a true story that had everything you could possibly want for a thriller, the film lacked drama, lacked action and lacked credibility.

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2019

It is a strike-out that failed to swing for the fences despite all the right elements.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2019

A fascinating true story of baseball and atomic spies is reduced to a lifeless, unsubtle biopic.

| Apr 16, 2019

Rudd is no stranger to dramatic material, but he comes across as a bit too charming to be truly believable in this sort of role.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 9, 2019

The movie makes a mess of what could have been a truly excellent tale.

| Nov 27, 2018

Such a remarkable and unusual story deserves to be told, but it needed to be told in a remarkable and unusual manner. This by-the-numbers biopic won't suffice.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 29, 2018

"The Catcher Was a Spy" has enough going in its favor to have been a solid flick. As such, the shortcomings really do feel like a major disappointment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2018

The Catcher Was a Spy is an efficiently produced enigma that presents actors in WWII-era clothing walking around and reciting dialogue, but the story lacks more bold speculation.

| Aug 29, 2018

"The Catcher Was a Spy" has a strong line-up, but there's no chemistry, making this one feel like a giant swing-and-miss.

| Original Score: C | Aug 14, 2018

In Moe Berg, Rudd helps director Ben Lewin (Paperback Writer, The Sessions) add another unforgettable passive hero to the his increasing menagerie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2018

It's an absorbing character study of a most intriguing man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2018

The Catcher Was a Spy is a moderately anticlimactic but engaging character study about a secretive man who lived an unbelievable life.

| Jul 19, 2018

A decent movie, based on a fine book about a phenomenal true story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2018

Another movie built around a single incident where there's no story to tell until it's time for the incident, and so what are we doing here?

| Original Score: C | Jul 11, 2018

It's a less than passable espionage thriller watered down by a vague character study.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2018

Based on true facts, the film seems real. Many folks never heard this tale. So it is new - not a bit stale.

| Jul 3, 2018

Moe Berg was a Boston Red Sox, Princeton grad, fluent in seven languages, and a patriot who spied for the U.S. military as a hobby. He was many things. But was he gay? You decide.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 3, 2018

While Rudd seems incapable of losing an audience's sympathies, he also captures Berg's secretive nature, the opaqueness behind the friendly smile.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2018