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The Tailor of Panama (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 26

The Tailor of Panama is a smart, darkly satirical thriller with exuberant performances from Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 3

The Tailor of Panama is a smart, darkly satirical thriller with exuberant performances from Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.

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Average Rating: 3/5
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Set amidst the controversy of the handover of the Panama Canal from America to Panama in late 1999, this espionage thriller follows seductive British spy Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), who has found himself recently banished to Panama. When Osnard stumbles into a tailor shop, he meets Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), a garrulous sort with an unmatched penchant for "fluence" -- that is, fabricating wild tales with real-life details. Osnard threatens to expose his shady past, until Pendel agrees to

Sep 11, 2001

$13.1M

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All Critics (120) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (26) | DVD (21)

If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.

September 26, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Magazine
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Seems diligently assembled.

May 2, 2001
The New Republic
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Elegant, sophisticated and very funny in a sly, subtle, wordy way.

April 23, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
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A literate and entertaining comic thriller.

April 20, 2001 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
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A wise, vivid, thoughtfully textured film.

April 20, 2001 Full Review Source: Detroit News
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[Boorman] manages to strike exactly the right tone, which is somewhere between irony and amused incredulity.

April 20, 2001
Detroit Free Press
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Not a great movie -- for adults only.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) has given us another fantasy-shattering glimpse into a world that's so far apart from our own.

July 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Funny, frisky and always on the right side of plausible. Mission accomplished.

February 13, 2004 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time.

July 25, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

It doesn't feel like a normal espionage thriller; it feels much, much better.

August 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Flipside Movie Emporium
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Audience Reviews for The Tailor of Panama

I really don't think this does John le Carre's novel any justice at all but who would have thought John Boorman would have messed it up!? Geoffrey Rush is very good as always but apart from Harold Pinter in an inspired bit of casting, it is a bad day in the office for everyone concerned. A really interesting story but a completely forgettable film. Nice to see Mrs Curtis's breasts again though! ;o)
December 15, 2010
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An intriguing tale of espionage and coercion in Central America. *Geoffrey Rush never ceases to amaze me and his performance here is no exception.
January 13, 2009
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