Official Secrets's reviews
Media reviews
Screen Daily
Director Gavin Hood gives the proceedings a rousing electricity, and he?s aided by a cast which leans into the story?s urgency and continued relevance.
Los Angeles Times
A model of professionalism and energy, Official Secrets moves along at a brisk clip. It?s paced like a police procedural, but it focuses not on an investigator but rather a moral exemplar who takes a principled stand in defiance of the price that has to be paid.
The Hollywood Reporter
This is the kind of recent history lesson that tends these days to acquire more texture as a limited-series cable drama.
The Guardian
Gavin Hood has delivered a far more traditional and at times stuffy tale, one that might be more suited to the small screen.
The story inside Official Secrets is one worth telling, but perhaps it would be better to read the book.
The Wrap
A capably rendered, urgently argued portrait in courage that never quite rises above curious-footnote status.
New York Post
Ralph Fiennes as Gun?s eventual lawyer, however, is totally forgettable, as is much of the standard-issue, self-important docudrama. So much of Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein and Gavin Hood?s screenplay arrives with a thud that it might?ve been written with clenched fists. Knightley?s overwrought performance doesn?t help either.