Bridge of Spies

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Bridge of Spies has a brassy and justified confidence in its own narrative flair.”

  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100

• “Spielberg has taken an important but largely forgotten and hardly action-packed slice of the Cold War and turned it into a gripping character study and thriller that feels a bit like a John Le Carre adaptation if Frank Capra were at the controls.”

  Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times · 100

• “Like some of Mr. Spielberg’s other recent movies, notably “Lincoln” and “Munich,” this one is a meticulously detailed period piece that revisits the anxieties of the past while also speaking to those of the present. Yet it also feels lighter than those films, less weighted down by accreted history or maybe by a sense of duty to its significance.”

  Manohla Dargis, The New York Times · 100

• “Bridge of Spies tells us that the Constitution is not some quaint national luxury but the road map out of the darkness.”

  Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 100

• “Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg’s best film since “Saving Private Ryan,” stars a flawless Tom Hanks in the smart, old-school thriller as James Donovan.”

  Lou Lumenick, New York Post · 100