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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

In Burton’s lined visage, often impassive beneath a tussled mop of hair and above an equally disheveled suit, there’s nothing but pain, exhaustion, and a resignation...

No film has caught the graven inhumanity and hollow intellectual chess game of move and counter-move charted by John Le Carre’s famous spy fiction, better than Martin Ritt’s masterful, if heavy, depiction of flawed idealism.

Gripping grit, with a perfect performance from Burton...

Burton is sexily morose, and if director Martin Ritt...plays down the suspense, he and his star nonethelesspull you into afascinatingly crabbed, paranoid world.