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- The Catcher Was a Spy generates tension without a high body count or gruesome violence. But it's not Hitchcock-tight or thrilling; director Ben Lewin (The Sessions) wisely makes it more of an intriguing character study than getting into the nuts and bolts of spying.
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Jun 22, 2018 · A biographical drama about Moe Berg, a baseball player turned spy who was tasked with assassinating a German scientist during World War II. The film struggles to capture Berg's personality and motivations, and suffers from a lack of imagination and style.
Jun 21, 2018 · “The Catcher Was a Spy” is a character drama and an espionage thriller with a premise so peculiar that a fiction writer would be hard pressed to contrive it.
- Ben Lewin
33% Tomatometer 76 Reviews 51% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Major League Baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
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- Ben Lewin
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- Paul Rudd
Jun 20, 2018 · The Catcher Was a Spy generates tension without a high body count or gruesome violence. But it's not Hitchcock-tight or thrilling; director Ben Lewin (The Sessions) wisely makes it more of an intriguing character study than getting into the nuts and bolts of spying.
Jan 31, 2018 · In 1944, the U.S. government asked a multilingual Jewish baseball player to travel through enemy lines in Italy, make his way to Zurich and assassinate the head of Germany’s atomic-bomb program ...
- THR Staff
Jan 20, 2018 · Sundance Film Review: ‘The Catcher Was a Spy’. Paul Rudd stars as a major-league baseball player turned WW2 intelligence agent in this fact-based misfire. By Dennis Harvey. Dusan...
Jun 22, 2018 · Adapted from Nicholas Dawidoff’s historical biography of the same name, “The Catcher Was a Spy” is a stiff and serene biopic about a man named Moe Berg, an enigmatic Jew who capped off his ...
