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By Neil Smith (699) for thelondonpaper (91) on 28 Mar 2009

A globe-trotting conspiracy thriller that is a little too complicated for its own good…

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By Jonathan Williams (7) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 27 Mar 2009

Traitor has its faults. It's overlong, contrived in parts and ultimately resorts to some predictable tactics…

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By Sam Toy (41) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 27 Mar 2009

More carefully measured than many of its American contemporaries, Traitor doesn't match the heights of Syriana, but sits comfortably above,…

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By Tom Huddlestone (75) for Time Out (7,510) on 27 Mar 2009

Once the pieces fall into place, it loses momentum, meandering towards a contrived climax in which all ambiguity is swept aside and the forces…

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By James Christopher (268) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 27 Mar 2009

The moral maze is not quite as murky as it should be, a suspicion that we may have misjudged the hero whisks the film back into the realms…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 27 Mar 2009

Some well-meant but fantastically flaccid and perfunctory gestures of friendship towards the Muslim world are the foundation of this empty thriller…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 27 Mar 2009

The mounting fear and isolation of the Cheadle character puts us in an interesting place: the war on terror is reconfigured as a tussle of the soul…

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By Mark Adams (368) for Sunday Mirror (UK) (89) on 27 Mar 2009

Globetrotting conspiracy thriller which moves at a fair old pace, blending action with a complex storyline…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 27 Mar 2009

Tense, intelligent and quite moving, it's a meaty thriller filled with characters painted in refreshingly complex shades of grey…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 27 Mar 2009

Before it reverts to standard thriller tropes, this tale of an Islamic double agent takes a more thoughtful attitude to East-West relations…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 27 Mar 2009

It isn't often that you see a thriller about international terrorism as even-handed as Jeffrey Nachmanoff's Traitor…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for News of the World (402) on 27 Mar 2009

An intelligent, action-packed thriller, made on a modest budget with no mega stars? Phew! Didn't see that coming…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 27 Mar 2009

Traitor is a grown-up film that doesn't insult the intelligence…

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By Josh Rosenblatt (154) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 Mar 2009

If you're looking for a few hours of mindless, uncomplicated, air-conditioned escapism to get you through a hot late-summer's evening, I'd…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 29 Dec 2008

This double or maybe even triple agent dude decidedly favors a kind of 'this hurts me more than it hurts you' scorched earth policy, a mentality…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 26 Nov 2008

Overall more thoughtful than jingoistic, even if it does little to advance audience understanding of the War on Terror and its multi-tentacled…

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By Robert Koehler (477) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Nov 2008

Cheadle's innate goodness is the film's main dilemma, since the truth under the story's surface (which we won't reveal here) can be contained…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 20 Nov 2008

A relentless suspense thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that will have you on the edge of your seat…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 14 Nov 2008

As an attempt to delve into the murky reaches of fundamentalism and fanaticism it displays its ambitions…

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By Ruth Hessey (35) for MovieTime, ABC Radio National (314) on 07 Nov 2008

Let's just say this is a well paced thriller with a strong cast -- it's good to see Guy Pearce on screen -- but the terrorist threat which…

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