All the Old Knives
Thandiwe Newton, Chris Pine and Laurence Fishburne star in this CIA thriller. Two operatives, and former lovers, reunite at idyllic Carmel-by-the-Sea to root out a mole in their ranks. Based on the novel by Olen Steinhauer.
"When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives... The investigation takes him from Austria to England to California, where he is reunited with his one-time colleague and ex-lover Celia Harrison (Newton). The pair are forced to blur the lines between profession and passion in this riveting tale of global espionage, moral ambiguity, and deadly betrayal." (Official synopsis)
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All the Old Knives | Reviews
Thandiwe Newton and Chris Pine are finely matched in this old-school espionage tale as spies and onetime lovers—their onscreen chemistry visibly fizzing. It may not be fresh, but it's consistently intriguing and cleverly told.
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Hollywood Reporter
The storytelling moves along at a steady hum, maintaining intrigue as different pieces of the puzzle come together.
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The Globe and Mail
Too frequently it tries to convince its audience that it is far smarter than it actually is.
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Entertainment Weekly
Characters tend to feel flattened into simpler, less interesting archetypes than they would be on the page.
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Boston Globe
Slickness can be appealing. It can also be phony. The two aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Here it’s mostly appealing, but less so as the plot further twistifies and the phoniness quotient rises.
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The Telegraph
The film majors in obfuscation, as if directness or tangible stakes would somehow be its undoing.
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The Guardian
It is the classic Le Carré conflation of three different sorts of betrayal: personal, professional and patriotic.
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IndieWire
Come for the espionage thrills, stay for the wrenching dissection of what it means to really love someone.
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Variety
The film’s prevailing solemnity ultimately makes its shards of paranoia and disclosures about the compromises of counterterrorism agents more unsettling, and the brutal finality of its outcome more chilling.
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The New York Times
Espionage thrillers usually traffic in globe-trotting mayhem, so it’s refreshing to find one whose main ingredients are two stars out-smoldering each other over dinner.
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All the Old Knives | Release Details
All the Old Knives is available to stream in New Zealand now on Prime Video.