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Our Kind of Traitor

2016

Susanna White

Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris ...

5.5

3,290

Mystery. Thriller A british couple on vacation find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.

	Media	Author	Review
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"White does make some interesting choices (...) That’s best about the film is the way it evokes the sense of momentous power struggles, political shifts and tragic events"
		Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"It's competently made, well-acted and largely intelligent, so why isn't the spy thriller "Our Kind of Traitor" more rewarding?"
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"The film, while gorgeously shot, is schematic and wholly implausible. But Skarsgård saves it; wild and funny and ferociously alive, he's a crucial bolt of color in all that tasteful gray"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	Our Kind Of Traitor may not reinvent the Le Carré lexicon, but will slide in very nicely with 'A Most Wanted Man' and 'The Constant Gardener'"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"['Our Kind of Traitor"] has loads of twists and all the ritualistic pessimism you expect, but none of the political and moral outrage that might have elevated this genre story into a le Carré one"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Susanna White, working from a savvy script by Hossein Amini, finds a way to get the job done (...) The film flies highest on the wings of two dynamite actors: Stellan Skarsgard (...) and Damien Lewis (...) Rating ★★★ (out of four)"

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