"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy": Almost Perfect, but for the Politics
Western Problems
The new film version of the John le Carré book is stylistically flawless, says Andrew Roberts. It’s the political message about the West that bugs him.
The new movie version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is as good as cinema gets: subtle, taut, intelligent, gripping. The normally jaded audience at the theater where I watched on the Upper West Side of Manhattan burst into unaccustomed applause at the end.
