The Courier - Reviews

It's in the final footage – an archival interview with the real Wynne – that the perfection of Cumberbatch's performance is expressed.

...will evoke memories of prior spy movies and the tropes they often employ.

It’s well shot, very well acted, and more enthralling than you might expect.

What elevates its otherwise familiar arc is a sharp script (...), and the remarkable commitment of its two central performances.

Cumberbatch has it all to do in this slow-paced, real-life tale of 60s Soviet espionage...

The star [Cumberbatch] turns in his most convincing performance for years...

Well-acted and early ’60s period perfect...

A good true-life spy picture.

...a worthy tribute to these two good men.

...this Cold War spy thriller thrives in the intensity that so often derives from undercover-based narratives.

Benedict Cumberbatch shines in this gripping true-life espionage thriller.

...it’s the opening words—“This film is based on true events”—that represent its strength and its limitation.

...a brisk spy thriller about a salesman who saved us from nuclear war.