Browsing: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

From Sam Mendes’ stunning reinvention of James Bond in Skyfall to Wes Anderson’s quirky look at young love in Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 has been a great year at the cinema. Here’s a rundown of some of the best films of the year

Tomas Alfredson’s cinematic adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy immerses itself in the murkiness and gloom of John le Carré’s Cold War novels. Dense, deliberate and cerebral, it is as fine a movie made from a Le Carré novel as we have seen since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in 1964