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Weekend Film Reviews

The Importance of Not Being Earnest

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Mar. 19, 2021 Entertainment
"The Courier," a Cold War spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is earnest to a fault.

"The Courier," a Cold War spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is earnest to a fault. Meaning it's unaccountably dull, even though Cumberbatch gives another of his strong performances, this time in the role of Greville Wynne, a British civilian recruited by MI6 and the CIA to travel to the Soviet Union and make covert contact with a Soviet intelligence officer who wants to help the West avoid a nuclear war.

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