Review of Official Secrets (2019) by Manohla Dargis for The New York Times — 28 Aug 2019
The director Gavin Hood, who wrote the script with Sara Bernstein and Gregory Bernstein, fits the pieces together coherently, no small thing given the complications. But the characters are malnourished and Hood’s attempts to build suspense often fall flat because he leans hard on genre conventions, on dark shadows, ominous music and abrupt sounds straight from a horror flick.
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This review of Official Secrets (2019) was written by Manohla Dargis and published by The New York Times on 28 Aug 2019.
Official Secrets has generally received positive reviews.
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