Screening Room: ‘Bridge of Spies’

Mark Rylance and Tom Hanks glare like they mean it (Dreamworks)

In Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, based on a tangled and fascinating true story, Tom Hanks plays a New York lawyer who gets swept into a Cold War scandal when the CIA needs help rescuing a U-2 spy plane pilot shot down by the Soviets.

Bridge of Spies opens everywhere this week. My review is atFilm Journal International:

Bridge of Spiessits at the lit-fuse junction of Cold War paranoia, the legal ethics of treating enemy comb...