The Catcher Was A Spy

Paul Rudd plays Berg with the droll, boyish charm he’s brought to dozens of other roles, but he adds a protective coating. This movie, directed by Ben Lewin from a Robert Rodat script (one adapted from Nicholas Dawidoff’s fascinating 1994 biography of Berg), relishes Berg’s compulsion to remain an enigma even to those closest to him

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The Catcher Was a Spy is a period thriller that could use more thrills

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Paul Rudd plays real-life baseballer Moe Berg in Ben Lewin's WWII adventure.

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The Catcher Was a Spy is a period thriller that could use more thrills

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Paul Rudd plays Berg with the droll, boyish charm he’s brought to dozens of other roles, but he adds a protective coating. This movie, directed by Ben Lewin from a Robert Rodat script (one adapted from Nicholas Dawidoff’s fascinating 1994 biography of Berg), relishes Berg’s compulsion to remain an enigma even to those closest to him

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The Catcher Was A Spy somehow squanders Paul Rudd as the 007 of baseball players

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The Catcher Was A Spy somehow squanders Paul Rudd as the 007 of baseball players

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Rudd plays a real-life Boston Red Sox catcher-turned-second world war secret agent in a serviceable adaptation of Nicholas Dawidoff’s bestselling biography

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Rudd plays a real-life Boston Red Sox catcher-turned-second world war secret agent in a serviceable adaptation of Nicholas Dawidoff’s bestselling biography

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Paul Rudd stars as a major-league baseball player turned WW2 intelligence agent in this fact-based misfire.

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Berg's various closeted tendencies are relegated to the stuff of mechanical character motivation and utilized as handy justification for reducing him to a cipher.

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Paul Rudd plays a real-life baseball legend who went undercover to help win WWII – so why is this true-story espionage thriller so dull?

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Paul Rudd isn't necessarily the first actor you think of when you hear the phrase "strong, silent type," but that's how he's been cast in "The Catcher Was a Spy."

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Paul Rudd plays a real-life baseball legend who went undercover to help win WWII – so why is this true-story espionage thriller so dull?

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The script, by Robert Rodat, skips around in time to elucidate the amped-up drama, but it never gets close to Berg’s own character. The film, directed by Ben Lewin, strongly suggests that Berg was gay, but leaves the theme undeveloped.

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Lewin has managed to make the unthinkable happen — he’s turned a celebrated WWII spy into the most boring man imaginable.

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Berg's various closeted tendencies are relegated to the stuff of mechanical character motivation and utilized as handy justification for reducing him to a cipher.

2493d ago

Paul Rudd stars as a major-league baseball player turned WW2 intelligence agent in this fact-based misfire.

2493d ago

Lewin has managed to make the unthinkable happen — he’s turned a celebrated WWII spy into the most boring man imaginable.

2493d ago

Paul Rudd isn't necessarily the first actor you think of when you hear the phrase "strong, silent type," but that's how he's been cast in "The Catcher Was a Spy."

2493d ago

The script, by Robert Rodat, skips around in time to elucidate the amped-up drama, but it never gets close to Berg’s own character. The film, directed by Ben Lewin, strongly suggests that Berg was gay, but leaves the theme undeveloped.

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The story of a Jewish LGBT genius baseball player spying against the Nazis shouldn’t be this lacking in thrills

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The story of a Jewish LGBT genius baseball player spying against the Nazis shouldn’t be this lacking in thrills

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“The Catcher Was a Spy” but the Movie Was a Bore

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“The Catcher Was a Spy” but the Movie Was a Bore

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