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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Chris Cooper is the whole, haunted show in Breach. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: As he proved in Shattered Glass, Ray has a talent for nailing the essence of an ecosystem. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen is now serving a life sentence for his long career as a Russian and Soviet spy, but this rote thriller implies he should have done prison time just for being Catholic. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: An uncompromising study in the gradual decay of a soul. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: One of the best elements of this lean, tense and coolly believable story about the internal hunt for FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen is how its visual style and dearth of formulaic structural ingredients run counter to almost any other spy movie. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Breach suffers from lavishing so much attention on a relatively minor figure. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Breach becomes a one-man show, and even though, thanks to [Chris] Cooper, it's quite a show, spy thrillers depend on the kind of give-and-take conspicuously missing here. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Because this espionage thriller is based on true events, it's a given that the bad guy will be caught. But [director] Ray builds an intriguing maze around the how, seen through the eyes of the audience's proxy, a young FBI man sent to spy on a colleague. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: There's precious little espionage where we can see it, and that's what makes the movie such a compelling and eerily effective little drama. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Filled with tension, deception and bravura acting, Breach is a crackling tale of real-life espionage that doubles as a compelling psychological drama. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: I can imagine no better man [than Chris Cooper] to play the enigma at the center of Breach. Read more
Tom Charity, CNN.com: Ray's careful emphasis on authenticity over thrills and psychology over action is impeded by this narrative's narrow window: there's so much we can't know about what Hanssen did and why. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Without Cooper's performance, Breach would have been a good, workmanlike thriller. His presence lifts it to a whole new level. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: It's not just that Breach looks terrific compared with the dreck Hollywood has thrown on screen so far this year, though there is that. No, Breach has the early-season intelligence and intriguing casting of last year's Inside Man. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Breach is the sort of studiously serious, well-made, based-on-fact film that critics go crazy for and audiences find earnestly dull and eminently avoidable. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: In truth, the movie leaves us scratching our heads. And yet, for most of it, I was held -- by Chris Cooper's dour portrayal of walled-off demons, by the director's fascination with a deception that, on the surface of it, doesn't add up. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: (Chris Cooper)is the principal reason why this unspectacular, low-key study of the Hanssen national security fiasco is so effective. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Breach is a good cloak-and-dagger tale and telling this complex story through O'Neill proves a brilliant way to watch Hanssen's schemes unravel. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: This isn't one of those labyrinthine works of deception that doubles back on itself at every turn. Breach is content to tell a strong story with the utmost efficiency and let its cast do the heavy lifting. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Much like Hanssen himself, Breach, which was co-written and directed by Billy Ray, remains cool to the touch, and all the more queasily fascinating for it. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: An unusually smart, tense and engaging film amid the usual dreck that lands in theaters this time of year. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: After the lumbering self-importance of The Good Shepherd, this lean, self-effacing portrait of an organizational black sheep is welcome. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: A wonderfully taut cat-and-mouse thriller. It features a performance by Chris Cooper, as the eccentric, contradictory Hanssen, that ought to be remembered as one of the year's best come December. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Cooper's performance is fine. The script, however, is filled with dead-end tangents and unanswered questions. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: A sharp cat-and-mouse game between Hanssen and Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe), the agent/trainee assigned to spy on him. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Though it's being dumped in the wastelands in February, Breach is better than many of the pack of so-called prestige movies that were released at the end of last year. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The movie gives us counter-espionage without the Bourne or Bond embellishments, and superb acting from Cooper, Phillippe and Linney. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Breach is competently made but, aside from Cooper's performance, there's nothing here worth getting excited about. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The picture is suspenseful where it counts, and at times, it's truly terrifying. There were moments that made my skin crawl. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: About the only thing ineffective about Breach is the humdrum title. Everything else in this smart thriller works like a perfectly crafted Latin Square puzzle. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A thriller with no thrills, a true story minus a single interesting truth, a real-life tale with all the fascination scraped off to leave only a residue of tedious facts. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Breach is a movie tailor-made for the age of intelligence failure. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Subtle, complex, bleakly funny at times, but always utterly enveloping, one of the great studies in profoundly abnormal psychology. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though you know from the start just how it's going to end, Breach, based on the true story of a treasonous FBI operative, is an edge-of-the-seat thriller. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Just as somber as The Good Shepherd, the most recent domestic spy drama, but more tightly focused, Breach absorbingly zeroes in on how the FBI nailed the most damaging turncoat in American history. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: It's not interested in cheap thrills or playing gotcha with the audience. (Which isn't to say parts of it aren't exhilarating.) Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: As he proved with Shattered Glass and as he proves again with Breach, director Billy Ray has become the John Ford of Washington culture. Read more