It all looks terribly old-fashioned and a little old-hat.

| Nov 9, 2014

Spy v Sigh.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 6, 2014

The spy who bored me.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2014

It's a serviceable, pleasingly CGI-unenhanced run-and-gun flick I will find on Encore Action after midnight a year-and-a-half from now and watch for 17 minutes before remembering I've already seen it.

| Aug 29, 2014

The November Man is one of those thrillers that grows progressively more incoherent, and it simply isn't fast enough to glide over its gaping narrative holes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2014

[An] engaging, fast-paced and ultimately ludicrous combo of espionage and mayhem ...

| Aug 28, 2014

A predictable espionage thriller undercut further by loose ends left dangling, November Man is worth seeing only for Pierce Brosnan's dynamic lead performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2014

"The November Man" turns out to be the classic August movie: a triumph of competence over imagination and schlock over taste. Its highest value lies in reminding filmgoers that fall can't come too soon.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 28, 2014

Director Roger Donaldson has had his ups and downs over the past few years; the script for this lodges somewhere in the middle, though he compensates for its lack of distinction through sheer velocity and nimble negotiation of its hairpin turns.

| Aug 28, 2014

The November Man is diligently executed, and Brosnan gives a fine performance as an action hero who can convey a character's thought processes as well as deliver a punch.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 28, 2014

Might be the most irresponsibly dumb spy thriller I've seen in some time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2014

If it doesn't transcend its genre origins, I suspect it's because it doesn't want to.

| Aug 28, 2014

When The November Man stays pulpy, its cheesier aspects-like a low-rent supporting cast and a gratuitous sex scene-seem like par for the course. When it turns more serious, so do its failings.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 28, 2014

Roger Donaldson embellishes an already overly plotty scenario with hollowly attractive genre superfluities.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 27, 2014

Barely reaches the standard of a generic throw-away thriller, with a sub-par storyline and painfully tiresome dialog.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 27, 2014

As far as escapist fluff laced with totally unnecessary real-world horror goes, The November Man isn't wretched.

| Aug 27, 2014

The utter lack of originality eventually sinks the movie, and the climax has more howlers than a wolf convention.

| Original Score: C | Aug 27, 2014

The movie fails to develop the most important people in Devereaux's life as characters, even obliquely, until the movie needs to terrorize or kill them to jack up suspense and sympathy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2014

Though it pulses with the violence and vague international intrigue of the Bourne series-there are shootouts, chase scenes, double crosses, and twists-there's no purpose behind any of this. It's just rug-pulling for its own sake.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2014

"The November Man" is a sturdy-enough addition to the action spy (as opposed to the thoughtful spy) canon. It shoots straight, runs fast and is thoroughly, almost convincingly, paranoid.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 27, 2014