Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Blu Ray/ (2011)

Editor's Note An ex-British agent (Gary Oldman) is brought out of retirement to rout out a MI6 double agent in this adaptation of John Le Carre's novel. Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, and Ciaran Hinds round out the starring cast, with Tomas Alfredson helming a script by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan. In 1979, the BBC aired a highly-acclaimed mini-series adapatation starring Alec Guiness in a rare small-screen appearance.

	Tom Hardy
	Colin Firth
	Ciaran Hinds
	John Hurt
	Gary Oldman
	Mark Strong
	Matyelock Gibbs - Co-Star
	Imre Csuja - Co-Star
	Stuart Graham - Co-Star
	Ilona Kassai - Co-Star
	Toby Jones - Co-Star
	Michael Sarne - Voice
	Jean-Claude Jay - Co-Star
	Arthur Nightingale - Co-Star
	Stephen Graham - Co-Star
	Kathy Burke - Co-Star
	Linda Marlowe - Co-Star
	Simon McBurney - Co-Star
	Benedict Cumberbatch - Co-Star
	David Dencik - Co-Star
	Peter O'Connor - Co-Star
	Svetlana Khodchenkova - Co-Star
	Tom Stuart - Co-Star
	Christian McKay - Co-Star
	Jamie Thomas King - Co-Star
	Zoltan Mucsi - Co-Star
	Amanda Fairbank-Hynes - Co-Star
	Laura Carmichael - Co-Star
	Roger Lloyd Pack - Co-Star
	Philip Hill-Pearson - Co-Star
	Konstantin Khabensky - Co-Star
	Sarah-Jane Robinson - Co-Star
	Katrina Vasilieva - Co-Star
	William Haddock - Co-Star
	Erskine Wylie - Co-Star
	Tomasz Kowalski - Co-Star
	Alexandra Salafranca - Co-Star
	Denis Khoroshko - Co-Star
	Oleg Dzhabrailov - Co-Star
	Gillian Steventon - Co-Star
	Nick Hopper - Co-Star
	Rupert Procter - Co-Star
	Peter Kalloy Molnar - Co-Star
	Peter Kalloy Molnar - Co-Star
	Felicity Bowring - Hairstylist
	John Le Carré - Source Writer
	Mark Raggett - Supervising Art Director
	Alberto Iglesias - Composer
	Tom Brown - Supervising Art Director
	FrameStore - Visual Effects Designer
	Nick Angel - Music Director
	Andy Bennett - Stunt Coordinator
	Donald McInnes - Hairstylist
	Donald McInnes - Makeup Designer
	Tim Wellspring - Production Manager/UPM
	Deborah Harding - Post-Production Supervisor
	Alexander Oakley - Assistant Director
	James Bellamy - Music Editor
	Howard Bargroff - Sound Re-Recording
	Tatiana Macdonald - Set Decorator
	Mark Holt - Special Effects Supervisor
	Tania Windsor Blunden - Post-Production Supervisor
	Peter Straughan - Screenwriter
	Bridget O'Connor - Screenwriter
	Dean Ford - Special Effects
	Douglas Cooper - Sound Re-Recording
	Hoyt van Hoytema - Director of Photography
	Lee Hales - Special Effects
	Mikael Marcimain - 2nd Unit Director
	The Chimney Pot - Visual Effects Designer
	Philip Martin Brown - Co-Star
	Tomas Alfredson - Director

Hollywood Reporter
"Huge on period atmosphere....Visually absorbing..." 09/05/2011

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Alfredson's direction is as hypnotic as silent snowfall. As in his tender horror, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, slow and steady wins the race..." 10/01/2011

Sight and Sound
"[With] a crack cast, tight scripting and Alfredson's direction, bringing to it something of the cool control and refusal to sensationalize that made his breakthrough movie LET THE RIGHT ONE IN so exceptional." 10/01/2011

Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "Alfredson gradually, imperceptibly ratchets up the tnesion....It always comes back -- brilliantly -- to Oldman's Smiley..." 10/05/2011

Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- "It's a Cold War-era tale, one that plays out in moral shades of gray, where the broad and brilliant cast engage each other with a series of smiling lies....TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY is the intellectual action flick of your dreams." 12/01/2011

Chicago Sun-Times
3 stars out of 4 -- "TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY looks, sounds and feels exactly right. Alfredson's film is faithful to the tone set by the novel." 12/14/2011

Los Angeles Times
"[D]eliciously, thrillingly, brilliantly complex....This is a film to which very close attention must be paid, but the rewards of doing so are considerable." 12/09/2011

USA Today
"Director Tomas Alfredson impeccably captures the Cold War era....The film employs a largely British cast that is perhaps the most impressive ensemble of any movie this year." 12/09/2011

New York Times
"[A] pleasurably sly and involving puzzler -- a mystery about mysteries within mysteries." 12/08/2011

Movieline
"The picture is so meticulously constructed -- like an elaborate mechanical watchwork -- that details can slip past you if you?re not paying careful attention....[The film] challenges audiences to believe in craftsmanship again." 12/08/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"At times it's enthrallingly clever and subtle....A movie of deceptions within deceptions and clues that glide by in a murmured flash." -- Grade: B 12/09/2011

Washington Post
3 stars out of 4 -- "It's a 1970s story told in 1970s style, an unrepentant un-reboot so old school that it feels subversively new." 12/16/2011