Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Director: Tomas Alfredson

2011 / 127min / 35mm

There is a mole inside MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, and agent George Smiley has been brought out of retirement to find out who is selling secrets to Moscow. Alfredson’s slow burn ’70s-set Cold War espionage thriller, based on the bestseller of the same name by John le Carré, gives Gary Oldman one of his career roles as the cool, controlled, calculating, and immaculately tailored Smiley, leading a cracking cast featuring John Hurt, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, and a young Tom Hardy, all in top form in this sublimely strategic, cerebral film of spygamesmanship, located at the intersection of cloak-and-dagger and cat and mouse.