Our Kind of Traitor

"White plays the moment of rupture with a banality that threatens to undermine our faith in her as storyteller more than in the system itself."

"A brisk, energetic drama, with Anthony Dod Mantle’s photography adding interesting layers to a fairly straightforward plot."

"There’s little of the poetry that Perry teaches in the script, but the story’s mechanics are solid."

"It’s a film whose final shape feels dwindled by compromise – not unappealing, but stymied, like a luxury jet which spends two hours taxiing on the runway."

"Director Susanna White favours a generic spy-movie look... Yet she works smartly with her actors..."

"[Does] a good job of keeping the tension ratcheted high (especially during one particular tennis match) in one of Le Carre's far more exotic tales..."

"No knock on McGregor and Harris — fine actors both — but they never hold us rapt the way the plot demands."

"Derivative, flabby and flat."

"Although engaging enough to hold interest, the just slightly off casting of Ewan McGregor and Stellan Skarsgard...dampens plausibility."

"A lesser entry in the LeCarré Cinematic Universe, though Damian Lewis and Stellan Skarsgård rescue it from complete blandness."