Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011) - Dec. 31, 2011
About a bunch of spy shenanigans revolving around a suspected mole in Britain in the '70s, this was a very well acted, handsomely made film that is probably a little too deliberately-paced for its own good.  Seriously, even by the standards of the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s that this film clearly took more than a little inspiration from, this is a slow-paced film.  It also doesn't do a particularly great job of fleshing out and getting us to care about the fairly sizable cast of characters.  However, the film is very stylish and does a great job of bringing the spy scene of the '70s to life, and is pretty much worth watching just based on that and the performances alone.  ***