Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies, a historical thriller movie, tells the story of James B Donovan, a lawyer who is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to the release of Francis Gary Powers, spy-plane pilot, whose U-2 plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a captive Soviet KGB spy held under the custody of the US.
23 February 1976, Denver, Colorado, USA
9 February 1979, Aurich, Germany
20 April 1985
17 December 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 October 1932, Paris, France
5 November 1962, California, USA
June 13, 2016
Though there's little action, the heart races and fists clench.
October 19, 2015
When all the international parties finally meet up at the shadowy titular bridge, we get to witness humanity - and classic filmmaking - at its finest.
November 09, 2015
Bridge of Spies is a heart-on-its-sleeve affirmation of American values -- not in the loaded contemporary sense of the term, but in the way the country was founded on values we have to work and fight to abide by.
December 07, 2016
Bridge of Spies may be devoid of spectacle, but it is still full of wonder and well worth a watch.
October 23, 2015
Spielberg and Charman frame Donovan as a thin bulwark against the American government's attempts to work around its own supposed ideals at the height of the Cold War.
July 25, 2016
Bridge of Spies is never less than brilliantly made, tense and with a satisfyingly twisty plot but Spielberg's recurring late period theme of honest men doing their best in a wicked world is just a little over-baked.
October 19, 2015
When a film is as enjoyable as this one, its timing so sweet, and its atmosphere conjured with such skill, do you really wish to register a complaint? Would it help?
July 14, 2016
Bridge of Spies is a bit overstuffed and full of itself, but it is competently made, a little exciting and a little funny and a little, well, little.
October 22, 2015
Bridge of Spies connects Cold War paranoia to today's terror. That's a bridge worth building.
July 10, 2016
For all its limitations, it's one of the few genuinely brainy Oscarbait films of the year.
December 19, 2016
Director Steven Spielberg gives audiences a meticulously composed espionage thriller, which establishes a tense atmosphere from the start and keeps the viewer engaged throughout. [Full review in Japanese]
November 06, 2015
Authentic re-creations of the period, including duck-and-cover clips about a nuclear holocaust that frightened young students, serve as a reminder of a time, not unlike our own, when the threat of terror kept a steady and disturbing beat.

