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A Most Wanted Man
This story presents a wide range of exciting events in Hamburg. That story began when there was a mysterious man trying to get himself back before he completely collapsed. That story begins when Günther Bachmann, a dangerous German spy, tries to track down that mysterious man in order to identify his mysterious identity.
1957
15 December 1974, Berlin, Germany
7 July 1975, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
24 February 1959, Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
12 March 1965, Dresden, Saxony, German Democratic Republic
8 February 1962, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
31 July 1954, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
1948, Itzehoe, Germany
1977 in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria
30 May 1984, Hamburg, West Germany
June 21, 2015
Cobijn doesn't totally conquer le Carré's complicated plotSeptember 09, 2014
Given the deadly stakes, this should be gripping, but the film gets sucked into academic plot details, trudging through each rendezvous and stakeout.January 05, 2015
This is the sharpest, most reasonable tale of espionage and intrigue since John Boorman's Tailor of Panama.April 15, 2016
A bittersweet curtain call for the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.June 21, 2016
As their entire mission rests on the most minuscule of actions, Corbijn has crafted a smart, slow-burn thriller.July 14, 2016
A Most Wanted Man is a rare feature: a relatively smart take on the war on terror that doesn't devolve into ideological score settling.January 05, 2015
One of the countless sad things about losing Hoffman is the realization that we'll never get to watch him single-handedly elevate an otherwise OK movie again.June 14, 2016
In a spy flick, we want to see action. We want to see Jason Bourne jumping off a roof. We want tension, not realism-not smoking and meetings and yakking.January 05, 2015
"A Most Wanted Man" allows Hoffman to go out with not only one of his best performances, but one that epitomizes his strengths.September 22, 2014
It was shot in dark, lurid, vital Hamburg; Hoffman is the star; and I was completely held.January 05, 2015
Hoffman's an actor who could do just about anything, but being authentically German is not one of them.July 26, 2016
It drags on a little long, but you can't look away.