Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman’s George Smiley heads an A-list cast in Tomas Alfredson’s taut adaptation of Le Carré’s classic spy saga.

  • Director

    Tomas Alfredson

  • With

    Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong

  • UK-France-Germany 2011. 127min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

With a remarkable cast (Benedict Cumberbatch, Kathy Burke, Tom Hardy and Stephen Graham are in there too), this adaptation of John Le Carré’s Cold War espionage mystery is inevitably classy and (given the running time) complex in its plotting. As the taciturn George Smiley, brought out of retirement to investigate a mole within MI6, Oldman bravely – and very successfully – follows in Alec Guinness’s footsteps.

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