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Finally saw the Nu52 reboot of TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY this weekend It's a fascinating exercise in adaptation and period reconstruction. I read the book when I was a teenager and again in college, and watched the 70s BBC miniseries on DVD in the 90s Considering the BBC series was made in the time in which[...]

A spy thriller that is, at heart, more akin to an episode of Inspector Morse than Mission Impossible or Die Another Day is the hardest sell of all. But it works. Against all odds, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is as engaging as it is complex, and feels decidedly cinematic rather than something you'd watch with a tray[...]