Our Kind of Traitor
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: July 1, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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16
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1
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80
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaJun 30, 2016
Director Susanna White keeps things low-key and absorbing, as the action moves from Marrakesh to London to Paris to Switzerland. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonDave CalhounMay 11, 2016
Once you get past some bumps in the road of believability, Our Kind of Traitor turns into a brisk, energetic drama, with Anthony Dod Mantle’s photography adding interesting layers to a fairly straightforward plot. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 1, 2016
Which is not to say the movie is anything less than diverting. It’s just that diverting is often all it is. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 30, 2016
No knock on McGregor and Harris — fine actors both — but they never hold us rapt the way the plot demands. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJun 23, 2016
The film, while gorgeously shot, is schematic and wholly implausible. But Skarsgård saves it; wild and funny and ferociously alive, he’s a crucial bolt of color in all that tasteful gray. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerJun 29, 2016
Director Susanna White, on only her second feature, jazzes up the proceedings to match the skill of actors like McGregor, Harris, and Skarsgård. Most notable is her smart use of cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 12, 2016
The intrigues are rather routine in ways that point out that perhaps the director of a “Nanny McPhee” movie wasn’t the best choice for this. But McGregor, Harris, Skarsgard and Lewis give fair value and give this the lived-in feel of even the most far-fetched LeCarre plots. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniJul 1, 2016
Our Kind of Traitor strains credulity: The world it attempts to depict - international organized crime - is too large, too unmanageable and too easily caricatured. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJul 1, 2016
While White’s direction is atmospheric, the sense of tension never gets crucial; the movie’s got more of a mood of resignation than of conflict. For all its respectful and respectable qualities, it also suffers from a certain inertia. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerJun 30, 2016
Scratch off Lewis as a contender for the new Bond actor. As for McGregor, he may have failed his audition as well. Our Kind of Traitor is tense enough, but lacks lustre and pizzazz. Perhaps a better-utilized Harris could have popped things up. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 30, 2016
I don't the think the "look" is quite right for the story. Nor is the dreamy, wandering score by Marcelo Zarvos, which adds the blandest sort of ambient "tension music" to whatever's going on. McGregor struggles to make Perry credible in his credulousness; Harris, far better, doesn't have enough to do; Skarsgard is fun. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJun 30, 2016
There’s little of the poetry that Perry teaches in the script, but the story’s mechanics are solid. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineOleg IvanovJun 29, 2016
It works as both a modern morality play for our globalized world and as an indictment of Europe's ethical bankruptcy. Read full review
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