Beirut

Beirut is a fairly standard thriller but it’s tightly plotted, well-composed and there’s at least one twist you genuinely don&rsqu...

This is an old-fashioned spy thriller, and as such it succeeds.

Tony Gilroy’s script is intricate and intelligent, with an appropriately cynical view of US foreign relations. And Hamm makes hay with his be...

But while the philosophy of Beirut is lacking, the film is generally entertaining.

As a personal statement it may belong more to its screenwriter and producer, Tony Gilroy…More shrewdly realistic than the average Hollywood po...

Brad Anderson’s Beirut doesn’t quite make foreign espionage look fun, but it shows how it might appeal to the sort of masochist who&rsq...

It’s hardly a stretch for Hamm to play a man who’s clever, disenchanted, and charismatically dissolute. But he does it as surely a...

Kudos to Anderson and Gilroy for making a low-action, dialogue-heavy geopolitical thriller in this day and age.

Beirut proves surprisingly sensitive in its handling of the Middle East, mapping out an area of nuanced power struggle rather than a cartoon C...

Beirut is as solid a film as Hamm is a performer.

Like any good spy tale, there’s the wounded man in the center, and [Jon] Hamm (mostly bouncing off his CIA handler Rosamund Pike) has got the...

Gilroy paints a nuanced picture of the civil conflict in Lebanon, noting the U.S. and Israeli agendas at work and the inner tensions of the PL...

Damn, is it good to watch a movie that expects the audience to pay attention and that doesn’t pander to the least common denominator.

A period political thriller whose motivations remain timely.

Beirut a handsomely mounted Middle Eastern Bridge of Spies I almost couldn’t help but enjoy.

In the tightly plotted espionage thriller Beirut, Jon Hamm has finally gotten a movie script that lets him strut his stuff.

The screenwriterly ironies and jaundiced attitude toward international politics at least keep moving-enough to make this efficient, quality hackwor...

This is a good movie for Hamm, and also for Pike who, in her recent films, has too often been either a madwoman or a victim of circumstan...

This is Hamm’s best leading role to date, a reminder of how good he can be when he’s given the right material.

Beirut [is] a highly efficient thriller.

An enjoyably pacey spy picture, unfolding against the backdrop of a country that has imploded.

The pleasure…of Beirut is watching Hamm and his associates encounter the conflicting factions at play, work out what’s actually going on, and...

There are no extraneous pieces, everything fits together like a puzzle. And Hamm is that puzzle’s key piece.

Dyspeptic wisdoms from Hamm about survival politics in conflict zones precede the slide into chase action and ticking-bomb deadlines.

Pike is terrific, and Hamm has a credibly bleary, weary look.

With four Bourne thrillers to his credit, it’s safe to assume that screenwriter Tony Gilroy could have penned this in his sleep. He didn&rsqu...

Gilroy is a master at laying out a twisty plot, and Anderson directs with the kind of verve that enables almost all the twists to hit us with...

Mostly the film trades in an agreeably old-school form of cinematic espionage intrigue.

The performances are strong and the story is absorbing; a smart diversion for adult attention spans.

[Jon Hamm’s] raw charisma, and near-peerless ability to sweat martinis through a disheveled linen suit and still look stylish, sends the...

The stakes in "Beirut" are high (a high-ranking official has been kidnapped, and everyone seems convinced that he’s going to spill all kinds...