Review of The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) by Ty Burr for Boston Globe — 20 Jun 2018
How do you make a boring movie about this guy? Beats me, but director Ben Lewin has managed to pull it off. Based on Nicholas Dawidoff’s 1994 biography of the same title, The Catcher Was a Spy is a decorous, dutiful dogtrot that tells Berg’s story with excellent production values and a conspicuous lack of energy.
In its tastefully dull fashion it wastes not only a fascinating subject but the mercurial actor playing him.
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This review of The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) was written by Ty Burr and published by Boston Globe on 20 Jun 2018.
The Catcher Was a Spy has generally received mixed reviews.
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