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Tag: Espionage

Spy fiction runs on withheld information, which makes it a structural exercise as much as a genre. This tag collects reviews of espionage films and fiction and the craft of managing what a reader knows.

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The Greatest James Bond Films

September 11, 2026

Every James Bond film ranked, with the rating each one carries in its own review. Casino Royale first, Die Another Day last, and a series that survives by periodically admitting it has gone wrong.

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The Gray Man (2022) Review

September 11, 2026

The Gray Man (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Netflix spent around two hundred million dollars on an action film with two of the largest stars available, and produced something nobody can describe afterward. The Prague…

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Tenet (2020) Review

September 10, 2026

Tenet (2020) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Nolan bought a real 747 to crash because it cost less than building a model, and then mixed the film so that a substantial number of people could not…

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The Bourne Identity (2002) Review

September 10, 2026

The Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…

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Munich (2005) Review

September 10, 2026

Munich (2005) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Spielberg's coldest film and the one that cost him most. A revenge picture in which every success makes the situation worse, and the argument is in the arithmetic.

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Ghost Wars

September 7, 2026

Steve Coll's Ghost Wars traces twenty-two years of CIA operations in Afghanistan that led directly to 9/11, and his choice to end the book on September 10th makes the argument impossible to ignore. Everything that happened the next morning had…

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The Hunt for Red October

June 3, 2026

The cat-and-mouse pursuit of a defecting Soviet submarine captain and his revolutionary stealth sub, with CIA analyst Jack Ryan racing to grasp his intentions. The blockbuster debut that invented the modern techno-thriller: gripping, meticulously researched, and genre-defining, if heavy on…

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