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71
Blindsight
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63
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70
Caramel
54
Cashback
44
Chaos Theory
32
Chapter 27
69
Chicago 10
82
Chop Shop
46
CJ7
78
Counterfeiters, The
30
Cover
48
Dark Matter
35
Deal
61
Dhamma Brothers, The
92
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The
73
Duchess of Langeais, The
20
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
58
Fall, The
43
Favor, The
58
First Saturday in May, The
57
Flawless
87
Flight of the Red Balloon, The
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Frontier(s)
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
57
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58
Hats Off
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Honeydripper
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Jellyfish
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Look
65
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Meet Bill
63
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54
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52
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Noise
61
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
83
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Pathology
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Penelope
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Persepolis
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XXY
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Up the Yangtze
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Persepolis
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Flight of the Red Balloon, The
85
Savages, The
83
Paranoid Park
83
Alexandra
83
U2 3D
82
Chop Shop
82
Taxi to the Dark Side
80
Band's Visit, The
79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
76
Unforeseen, The
76
Stuff and Dough
75
Young@Heart
75
Shotgun Stories
74
Witnesses, The
73
Duchess of Langeais, The
72
Roman de gare
72
Priceless
72
Tuya's Marriage
72
Life of Reilly, The
71
My Brother Is an Only Child
71
Blindsight
71
Standard Operating Procedure
70
Caramel
69
Redbelt
69
Chicago 10
68
Honeydripper
67
Snow Angels
67
Praying with Lior
67
Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
67
Jellyfish
66
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
66
Shelter
65
Married Life
64
Surfwise
64
Son of Rambow
64
Water Lilies
63
XXY
63
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
63
Body of War
63
Blind Mountain
62
Planet B-Boy
62
Battle for Haditha
61
Dhamma Brothers, The
61
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
61
Girls Rock!
59
Under the Same Moon
59
Fugitive Pieces
58
First Saturday in May, The
58
Fall, The
58
Hats Off
58
Bra Boys
57
Flawless
57
Teeth
57
Without the King
57
Grand, The
56
Turn the River
56
Then She Found Me
55
Vice
55
Tracey Fragments, The
55
Pathology
55
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
54
Cashback
54
Mister Lonely
52
Noise
52
My Blueberry Nights
50
Look
48
Run, Fat Boy, Run
48
Dark Matter
48
Penelope
47
Bella
47
Boarding Gate
46
CJ7
46
Previous Engagement, A
45
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
45
Zombie Strippers
44
Frontier(s)
44
Chaos Theory
43
Anamorph
43
Favor, The
41
Funny Games
40
Sleepwalking
37
Life Before Her Eyes, The
35
Meet Bill
35
Babysitters, The
35
Deal
32
Backseat
32
Chapter 27
30
Cover
24
Sex and Death 101
20
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
17
Prom Night
xx
Tashan
xx
Unsettled
xx
Plumm Summer, A
xx
Kiss the Bride
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Spy Game
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, some violence and brief sexuality
Starring
Robert Redford,
Brad Pitt,
Catherine McCormack,
Stephen Dillane,
Marianne Jean-Baptiste,
and
Larry Bryggman
On the brink of retirement, a veteran CIA agent (Redford) takes on his most dangerous and personal mission ever when he must organize the rescue of his one-time protégé (Pitt) who has been captured by the Chinese while on a rogue mission.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Michael Frost Beckner (also story)
David Arata
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Tony Scott
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 9, 2002
Video: April 9, 2002
Theatrical: November 21, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The movie is sleek and shiny as a new bullet, reflecting Scott's patented surplus of style.

83
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
There's more to this movie. Like Pitt at his best, it's pretty, gritty, engrossing and fun.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Serves up a judicious blend of showy action, political intrigue, ticking-clock suspense and intramural CIA one-upsmanship for mainstream entertainment.

80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
With its cast of back-stabbing functionaries and desk jockeys, Spy Game makes the sport and hard work of espionage seem chillingly real.

80
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Happily, beneath the film's nostalgic veneer and tooth-rattling visual and aural effects lies a mature ambiguity that's unusual for a holiday blockbuster -- and all but unheard of in a Tony Scott movie.

75
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
If you like Redford, Spy Game will be a real treat: a fast electric thriller full of the old Sundance charm and pizzazz.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The script provides an excellent payoff, although action fans may not agree, because that payoff is the equivalent of a Cheshire cat's grin.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Gripping, improbable plot marked by exciting sequences of action.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The film is brimming with plots, counterplots, dossiers, and sinister corrupt priorities, all held together by the telephoto obsidian gloss of Scott's look-ma-no-pauses style.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The movie asks tough, unflinching questions about America's responsibility to maintain world peace -- and the price we are willing to pay in order to accomplish that. Timely stuff, indeed.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There's something elegiac in Redford's spy who knows he's a dinosaur but still has a few moves left.
75
USA Today
Mike Clark
More than a quarter-century ago, Redford played a young CIA employee in "Three Days of the Condor." Someday, it will make a great living-room double bill with Spy Game -- the actor then and now.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Enormously satisfying and fun to watch.

70
Newsweek
David Ansen
Entertaining but farfetched, Spy Game might have looked less meretricious a few months back. But the real world has sabotaged its pretense of authenticity. Enjoy it for what it is, a fleet, handsome fantasy of globe-hopping blond demigods.
70
LA Weekly
John Powers
The supremely attractive leads, exotic locations (Vietnam, Berlin and Beirut) and fetishized violence imbue the whole intelligence game with undeniable glamour.

70
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Manages to be entertaining and reasonably exciting. Scott's style may be slick and tricky but, if this and his last film, "Enemy of the State," are any indication, he's lost the glossy sadism that characterized his previous work.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's well-plotted, acted with a charismatic flair and right on the zeitgeist.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Fans of swooping helicopter shots, alleys filled with backlit geysers of steam, and jump-cut editing that makes MTV look like Ingmar Bergman will relish the intercontinental intrigue and huggermugger that is Spy Game.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is not a bad movie, mind you; it's clever and shows great control of craft, but it doesn't care, and so it's hard for us to care about. To see it once is to plumb to the bottom of its mysteries, and beyond.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
We don't experience the drama from the inside out because everything is on the surface. Redford is the only one who supplies internal life to Spy Game.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
To make silk purses from turgid passages, Mr. Scott does what he always does, gooses them up with every trick in the big-budget book.
60
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What Spy Game turns out to be is the old reliable family car spruced up around the edges in an attempt to convince a new generation of buyers that it's a hot number.

60
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
A mess, but it's a rousing mess, with ample humor and action to satisfy the discerning dullard within.

50
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Less Bond than simply boring, a tedious and overdirected race-against-time drama with a few espionage elements thrown in.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The problem lies in the calculating pretentiousness of using human misery to make shallow entertainment seem serious. It's worth comparing Spy Game with "The Tailor of Panama," John Boorman's far superior exercise in post-cold-war spycraft.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Don't you hate movies where one character is so much smarter than everyone else? That's only one problem with Spy Game, a glossy, suffocatingly predictable star vehicle for Robert Redford and Brad Pitt.

50
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
Extremely well-shot espionage thriller that might have worked as an old-fashioned guy's-guy movie if the guys involved had any real, human personality and the espionage were actually thrilling.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Reasonably entertaining spy-versus-spy shenanigans were for me partially undercut by the hypocritical pretense that the CIA and its various forms of mischief were somehow being ridiculed.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A dead-chamber misfire, a hollowpoint dud.


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