The Ipcress File

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Season 1
  • Network: ITV , AMC+
  • Series Premiere Date: May 19, 2022
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12

Critic Reviews

  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Apr 8, 2022
    60
    This six-part series strays into homage, right down to replicating the moment in which Palmer gropes for his glasses to bring the room into focus. ... Cole homes in on the character’s insolence and aloofness, but doesn’t deliver on charm.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Steven Scaife
    May 23, 2022
    50
    The series has a few charming deviations from the 1965 film, and the allegiances between its characters are excitingly muddled, especially across scenes where they make veiled threats to one another in polite settings. But expanding the story has done its tired themes few favors.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    May 18, 2022
    50
    You could, as the series winds along and pads out the time with a subplot about Dalby’s former Soviet lover, wish for some of the film’s silliness to enliven the lovely photography and bespoke nostalgia. And the story, while more coherent and consequential, still has a laboratory-maze quality to it. You could also wish, it must be said, no matter how unfairly, for some of Caine’s blunt magnetism.