REVIEW: Rogue Agent [2022]

Everyone has a story they want to be told. I’m surprised the studio gives up the game in its marketing materials since Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson‘s Rogue Agent is built in such a way that allows the ruse to stand as truth until a midway point revelation. It’s a case where not watching a trailer probably augmented my enjoyment of the piece because I genuinely didn’t know where things were going or who to believe. Was Robert Freegard (James Norton) really an MI5 agent who fell in love and…

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REVIEW: Mr. Jones [2019]

I’ve woken up screaming in Barry myself. It’s not a bad thing to be insane in an insane world. In fact, it’s comfortable. So it’s unsurprising that a room full of old white British men would simply laugh when Gareth Jones (James Norton) tells them a truth their privileged naiveté refuses to let be taken seriously at the start of Agnieszka Holland‘s Mr. Jones. He’s a Foreign Service employee under Lloyd George (Kenneth Cranham) who found himself on a plane with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, interviewing the two to…

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