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While the trailer has some great editing to reveal this as a spy thriller, the film itself unfortunately is nothing more than a messy saga of sex, lies, murder, and fake Russian accents all thrown together in a two - and - a-half hour drudge through the cold Eastern European winter.

Although masquerading as a spy thriller, this elliptical film unfolds as a shrewdly understated rumination on the grieving process.

Not exact matches

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Spectre wants to operate as both a grim post-9 / 11 thriller and a throwback spy yarn, and it succeeds often enough.

Critic Consensus: As beautifully shot as it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller — and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George ClooneAs beautifully shot as it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller — and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George Clooneas it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller — and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George Clooney.

Critics Consensus: As beautifully shot as it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller — and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George ClooneAs beautifully shot as it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller — and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George Clooneas it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller — and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George Clooney.

After hearing about this online I was wondering how an all German language spy thriller could ever play out in North America, I would watch it but I know a lot of people who switch stations as soon as they see a sub come up witch is to bad.

In a special league with other spy thrillers such as The Third Man and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, director Lawrence has fashioned a thrill - a-minute hijinks film that takes place both in the West and in Moscow (with Budapest substituting for the Russian capitaspy thrillers such as The Third Man and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, director Lawrence has fashioned a thrill - a-minute hijinks film that takes place both in the West and in Moscow (with Budapest substituting for the Russian capitaSpy Who Came in from the Cold, director Lawrence has fashioned a thrill - a-minute hijinks film that takes place both in the West and in Moscow (with Budapest substituting for the Russian capital).

«Red Sparrow» is being marketed as a sexy spy thriller in which Jennifer Lawrence shows a lot of skin.

Using the simple name Eve, she released two solo rap albums — Let There Be Eve... Ruff Ryder's First Lady... and Scorpion — before making her first film appearance in a brief role as J.J. in XXX, a spy thriller whose title song she also composed.

Jessica Chastain's female spy thriller «355» sparked a heated bidding war, with Universal emerging as the victor in an eight - figure deal.

As a Russian spy who uses sex to her advantage, Jennifer Lawrence is put through the ringer in a punishing thriller that never quite takes wing.

Life Is a Dream is composed of a patchwork of episodes organized around two narrative threads: Ignacio's return to his hometown (spy thriller) and the French - language performance (ostensibly as recalled by Ignacio) of Calderón's play.

But Summit failed to convincingly package this as either an upscale thriller along the lines of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, as implied by a powerhouse cast also featuring Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace and Paddy Considine; or as something racier à la The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Gone Girl (indeed, the film itself falls awkwardly between these two stools).

A January 20, 2012 release date has been set for this spy thriller starring MMA fighter Gina Carano as a covert agent who is double - crossed.

When Gordon - Levitt's Snowden arrives for his first day at the CIA, whom should he run into but Nicolas Cage as a grizzled spy instructor, sending out a (false, it turns out) note that Snowden is actually a thriller - comedy.

I've never seen an episode of MI - 5, but I've seen my fair share of spy - action - thrillers, and this one is about as middle of the road as you can get.

Jennifer Lawrence takes the bull by the horns as a Russian spy in white - knuckle espionage thriller Red Sparrow.

As much as the director creates a cold (and cold - blooded), operatic world with Sparrow, this movie, while thankfully convincing as a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadisAs much as the director creates a cold (and cold - blooded), operatic world with Sparrow, this movie, while thankfully convincing as a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadisas the director creates a cold (and cold - blooded), operatic world with Sparrow, this movie, while thankfully convincing as a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadisas a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadism.

It has the wide frames, slow pace, and convoluted narrative you'd find in a spy thriller, as well as the neon visuals, brutal violence, and cynical anti-hero found in Neo-Noir.

This is an old - fashioned spy thriller, and as such it succeeds.

Dead pan Leslie Nielsen stars as Dick Steele, agent WD - 40, in this uneven send - up of spy thrillers and other popular genres done in the hilarious style of the Zucker / Abrams «Naked Gun» series.

Desplechin regular Mathieu Amalric returns as the same academic from the filmmaker's 1996 My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument, though the actor quickly takes a nostalgic supporting role as the movie shifts into teenage flashbacks that alternately take the tone of domestic melodrama, spy thriller and gushing romance.

Combining a superhero film with a spy thriller, as well as a few new great characters makes this film a big step up from the first.

This it the brutal, surly brother to Bridge of Spies» clean - cut kid, a spy thriller in which characters are divested of their nationalities as a way to mete out actions which can not be seen to be linked to any one country for fear of reprimands.

His 1928 thriller Spies (Spione) belongs to a different tradition, one that came out of the rapid - paced adventure and crime serials of the twenties that were inspired primarily by the hugely successful (and at times surreal) pulp crime serials of Louis Feuillade in France, such as Fantomas and Les Vampires.

Hoffman leads the contemporary thriller as Günther Bachmann, a German spy looking for a half - Chechen, half - Russian immigrant (Grigoriy Dobrygin) with possible terrorist ties.

The American spy «Nate» Nash (Joel Edgerton), who becomes obsessed by her, has some of the same everyman qualities as James Stewart in one of those thrillers.

American Ultra is part action - comedy, part spy thriller, and part romantic drama, with Eisenberg starring as Mike, a burn - out working at a convenience store and trying to work up the nerve to propose to his girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart).

Director: Steven Spielberg Running time: 141 minutes Rating: 12A Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller, starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer tasked with mediating a spy swap between the US and Russia.

As reported by Variety, John Wick co-director David Leitch has dropped out of filming that movie's sequel so he can solo - direct a spy thriller, leaving Chad Stahelski to co-direct John Wick 2 all by himself.

The third explosive chapter of the blockbuster franchise that redefined the spy thriller finds extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) coming out of self - imposed exile and on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box.

In some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years later.

The best of them, Thomas Kruithof's Kafkaesque spy thriller «The Eavesdropper,» gives us that sorrowful - looking French star François Cluzet, as an alcoholic ex-accountant who becomes enmeshed in a right - wing conspiracy when he's hired to retype some mysterious documents.

Based upon John le Carré's 1974 espionage novel of the same name and directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), the acclaimed thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, a former British Intelligence operative called out of retirement to track down a mole within the agency.

Wan na see a spy thriller that feels like leftovers from Pierce Brosnan's days as James Bond?

This tense, often confusing spy - thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence as a Bolshoi ballerina - turned - spy, gets a lot of things right, but also a lot of things wrong.

Then, next year brings Chris Evans» Cap back for a story ripped from Ed Brubaker's comic book run about Bucky (Sebastian Stan) recovered, resurrected, brainwashed and augmented into lethal killer Winter Soldier for what is promised as a blend of spy thriller and World War II hero Steve Rogers continuing to find his place in the modern world.

Taron Egerton is back as Eggsy in the action packed comedy / spy thriller Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

«The Enemy Within» In this fast - paced, spy - hunting thriller, Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter) is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison.

According to Variety, there has been a shuffling of the pack over on Hulu's upcoming TV adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch - 22, with Friday Night Lights and Bloodline's Kyle Chandler replacing George Clooney as Colonel Cathcart, and joining Hugh Laurie (House) and Christopher Abbott (The Sinner) in the spy thriller.

The Bourne boom is still in full effect in Hollywood right now, as studios continue to set the wheels in motion on more spy movies and espionage - themed thrillers.

Paramount seems to be on a bit of a marketing blitz for Jack Ryan, the CIA operative, spy thriller starring Chris Pine, as the second trailer just dumped online not even two weeks after the premiere of the first.

Under the renewal of their deal, IMAX will be showcasing the previously announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and this December's In the Heart of the Sea, as well as a slew of upcoming movies like Guy Ritchie's spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ritchie's currently filming King Arthur movie, David Yates's 2016 adventure film Tarzan, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins, the thriller Geostorm, and more.

The film is being promoted as an exciting action spy thriller, but it isn't another Hunger Games.

Because he sometimes enjoys finishing one movie while starting another (see Jurassic Park and Schindler's List), Steven Spielberg is kicking off work on Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG even as he puts the final touches to Cold War thriller Bridge Of Spies.

Continuing to showcase The American as a vintage spy thriller, this featurette maintains the same gloss of prestige that we've seen carried through from the retro poster design.

The 38 - year - old actor plays Cold War - era spy David Percival in the action thriller alongside Charlize as Lorraine Broughton and James admitted his character can not compete with Charlize's in physical combat.

Far more interesting (as usual) are the films in limited release, starting with the Cold War thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Some see this version of the story as a psychological thriller about an aging spy in a changing world (and some find Brandauer's Largo to be complex and sensitive; I merely find him bland and tiresome), but there's really nothing to the damned thing beyond a dusty, misguided nostalgia attempting to resurrect Connery's glory days.