One of the Best of 2010
One of the best films of 2010, it startles by its sheer competence as well as its willingness to engage, without irony, the old-style conspiracy thriller form, inventing it anew. Gripping and superbly acted (Olivia Williams is fabulous), and boasting a terrific score by the brilliant Alexandre Desplat. In an under-handed way, the film may be Polanski's love-letter to the America that rejected him ... but it is also much more than that, both troubling and cinematically exhilarating.