Review of The Courier (2020) by Mauro_Lanari — 02 Sep 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

Cumberbatch produces himself in a movie with which he wants to prove that he is a good actor not only in the management of psychic expressions but also in bodily transformations, and chooses a dusty story about the Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis already told who knows how many times and with much more emotion. Modest and ambitious, devoid of rhythm and surprises, Dominic Cooke directs a true story with the perfect reconstruction of the leaden atmospheres of the time and with a didacticism that traps him in a rather anonymous episode of "History Channel".