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By Alex Saveliev (258) for Film Threat (5,156) on 02 Aug 2019

Its dismal grey/brown color palette doesn’t help the film’s sluggish pacing, making The Operative one of the most head-scratching, aggravating…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Aug 2019

Diane Kruger is as inscrutable to us as she is to her fellow Mossad agents and the asset she seduces in The Operative, a solidly crafted if…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 01 Aug 2019

The Operative, directed by Yuval Adler, doesn’t offer much distinctive, but it does deliver a few suspenseful sequences, some interesting…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Aug 2019

The movie hits all the right plot points but never connects them to a story with any kind of momentum or tension…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 29 Jul 2019

For a genre picture, this one is better than average, letting us see what two fine actors saw in the script and not leaving them or us disappointed…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 15 Feb 2019

Diane Kruger is compelling in the central role in this pacy procedural thriller which is persuasive in its depiction of contemporary spycraft…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

A proficient but unsurprising espionage thriller from Israeli writer-director Yuval Adler that offers another well-fitted showcase for Diane…

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By Ed Frankl (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Feb 2019

Director Adler has made a very talky film, full of interior scenes and far flung from the hard-edged spy thrillers of Bond or Bourne…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Feb 2019

Writer-director Yuval Adler connects the dots of the convoluted plot with reasonable clarity, but The Operative only intermittently builds suspense…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 15 Feb 2019

Audiences may come to this film expecting the conventional pleasures of a spy thriller – excitement, tension, suspense – along with the…

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Film critics gave The Operative (2019) an average score of 52%, indicating generally mixed reviews.

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