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tvguide.com:
Damon's subtle, painfully introverted performance is the film's linchpin, but the supporting cast — notably Gambon, Crudup, William Hurt, Alec Baldwin, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton and Gabriel Macht — is top notch. Roth's screenplay, steeped in the peculiar rituals, lock-jawed repression and smug sense of superiority of the WASP ruling class that both shaped America's intelligence community and made it vulnerable, is less interested in derring-do than back-room deals and the day-to-day drudgery of spying, driven by the notion that espionage is a cynical high-stakes game played with people's lives and the ante is human decency and connectedness.
--Maitland McDonagh
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