Red Joan

I Spy, Reluctantly

A story of Cambridge spies, atom-bomb secrets and a passionate affair between a demure Brit and a dashing Commie should steam up the screen and pop your popcorn. Or you would think so: but leave it to the feted British theater director Trevor Nunn to flatten the intrigue and dampen the lust that could have made "Red Joan" zing. Nunn, however, can't take all the blame for the terribly-proper tone and stodgy pacing. Lindsay Shapero's screenplay (adapted from Jennie Rooney's 2013 novel and based on the real-life spy Melita Norwood) is an equal culprit, heavy on flashbacks and light on the seductiveness of hazardous ideas. [...]

di Jeannette Catsoulis, articolo completo (1814 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 18 aprile 2019