An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.
Steven Spielberg has taken the largely forgotten 1960 exchange of U.S. and Soviet spies and turned it into a gripping character study and thriller that feels a bit like a John Le Carre adaptation if Frank Capra were at the controls. Tom Hanks, in full modern-day Jimmy Stewart mode, stars as the genial U.S. negotiator. — Four stars