The Company
TNT | Release Date: August 5, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: With strong performances by a cast that includes Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Rory Cochrane and Chris O'Donnell, this adaptation of a Robert Ludlum novel reels you right in. Read full review
88
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Watch for the smart dialogue and the sweep of historical events. But mostly watch for Keaton in a career-best performance. You won't forget it. Read full review
88
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: It evokes an era worth revisiting, reconsiders a time that was an important chapter in our history and gives us a monumental performance by Keaton. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: Meaty, gorgeous and sometimes soapy. [10 Aug 2007, p.58]
83
Christian Science MonitorGloria Goodale
Season 1 Review: LeCarré-like in its disillusionment with power, this is good historical fiction for warm August nights. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Bleak but intriguing, Company is a brilliant reflection of the mind-set that dominated world politics for a half century. Solid performances are the rule, with special applause for Molina and Keaton. Director Mikael Salomon effectively uses darkness and shadows to illustrate the clandestine environment as well as metaphors for this grim historical era. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: This darkly engrossing and quietly suspenseful six-hour miniseries packages its chilly, cynical overview of international Cold War espionage in a brisk parade of sumptuously produced historical set pieces. Read full review
80
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: This spy drama is not as dense and psychologically intricate, but it has compensations, most notably the placement of fictional characters like McAuliffe and Torriti alongside real-life figures like Angleton and Philby, and inside real-life crises like the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Read full review
80
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Here and there, The Company is so evocatively dark and creepy it approaches the artistry of a John le Carré thriller, at least as adapted for TV back in the '80s and '90s. Read full review
80
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: The Company is a gripping requiem for the Cold War and the men who fought it. Read full review
75
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: Thanks to sleek production values, a generally top-notch cast and an absorbing overall story that smartly mixes explosive action with quieter moments of sinister intrigue, The Company delivers a refreshingly solid jolt of summertime Big Event drama. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: It’s at its best when it sweats the small stuff of things like "barium meals" (purposefully fake directives designed to smoke out double agents) and the moves and countermoves of smart men trying to outwit each other. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: So much of it is striking, particularly the work of two of the leads, Alfred Molina (The Da Vinci Code, Frida) and Michael Keaton (Batman, Live From Baghdad), who play CIA men with antithetical spy styles. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: The Company starts slowly and somewhat confused, but eventually it chugs its way to coherence as it becomes a decent little drama. Read full review
60
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: If only the delicacy of these two character actors [Alfred Molina and Michael Keaton], were matched by that of The Company's central figures and the production's overall arc. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: Some of it is very enjoyable, some of it is silly but still enjoyable, some of it is too silly to be enjoyable, some of it is not silly enough to be enjoyable, and some of it is neither here nor there. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: The spy story, wartime bullets and intrigue carry The Company, though the writing and story are unnecessarily obvious. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, the project is too short to do its subject matter justice and too long and clumsy to keep us involved--a problem compounded by Chris O'Donnell's boyishly bland performance as The Company's central agent. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: There's no nice way to state the obvious--that despite the creative stamp of producers Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and John Calley, stars Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina and Michael Keaton simply don't work in their roles, obscuring the solid supporting work, especially by Tom Hollander. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: The Company delivers no real chills, just a quaint Cold War amusement park ride. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: We go on watching because of Keaton.... Otherwise, The Company is both surprisingly slow and remarkably tendentious. Read full review
40
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: This sometimes thought-provoking drama may be too familiar and slack for all but the most spy-struck. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: If you can view The Company's as a basic thriller, and ignore its gaffes, you'll find entertainment here. Read full review
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