Title: Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Epic, ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Is Riveting | | Observer
Headings: Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Epic, ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Is Riveting
MOVIES
Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Epic, ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Is Riveting
The adventures of Tom Hanks

Content: Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Epic, ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Is Riveting | | Observer
MOVIES
Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Epic, ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Is Riveting
The adventures of Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks stars in Bridge of Spies. A lot of people like complicated, cold war espionage thrillers, but with few exceptions, I’m not one of them. I understand war and battle sequences, and I totally get the Nazis. What I don’t always understand is secret agents in business suits and Humphrey Bogart raincoats who slink around in rain-soaked back alleys, spying on each other for reasons that are never clearly explained, in foreign countries where nobody speaks English, yet the good guys always manage to have the correct change for phone calls and hail taxis without telling the drivers where they’re going. So I dreaded Bridge of Spies, with nobody more all-American wandering around East Berlin than Tom Hanks. I should have known better. The director, after all, is Steven Spielberg, who knows how to make logical movies and has a special affinity for narrative coherence. It’s a riveting film and I understood every word. BRIDGE OF SPIES ★★★
( 3/4 stars)
Written by: Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
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