Charlotte Gray

Blanchett is as good as ever...

This is a movie that looks great, is well-acted, and tells a story that you can't believe for a moment.

The most pointed insight of Charlotte Gray is that war is messy, confusing, and violent, and even more so on covert levels.

Blanchett, as always, is a powerfully magnetic presence, lending credibility to the most contrived of scenes with nothing more than a convincing look. She is both lioness and gazelle...

At the height of the London Blitz, young Charlotte Gray (...) leaves her native town of St. Andrews, Scotland, for bombed-out London; she's not quite sure what she's going to do once she gets there, but she knows she must do something.