Red Joan
(2018)What price would you pay for peace?
Based on a true story, Oscar-winner Dame Judi Dench is a British physicist who led a double life as the longest-serving British spy for the KGB. Inspired by the life of Melita Norwood, Dench plays Joan Stanley, who looks back on a lifetime of espionage intrigue that spanned half a century - from the Second World War to the year 2000.
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Directed by Trevor Nunn ('Lady Jane', 'Hedda', 'Twelfth Night')
Starring Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laurence Spellman, Tereza Srbova
Written by Lindsay Shapero
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A taut old-school thriller with a modern heroine. Full Review
Solidly competent and, for the most part, well acted... Full Review
Most of the fun in Red Joan comes from such overthrown expectations, so it's a shame that the film itself fails to overwhelm - mostly proceeding along dully familiar lines and anything but radical. Full Review
Dench lends emotional heft and nuance to her handful of scenes, but Red Joan is otherwise let down by leaden dialogue and one-note characters. Full Review
A would-be sweeping epic that instead turns out tweedy, dreary, and unconvincing. Full Review
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