“In this week’s Body of Lies, director Ridley Scott captures a complex relationship between CIA field man Leonardo DiCaprio and his boss, Russell Crowe. The plot, pitch and poster have already elicited comparisons to Tony Scott’s 2001 Spy Game, which saw agent Brad Pitt mentored and monitored by senior agent Robert Redford. So, sure, similar pairings of old-school and new-school movies stars in the world of high espionage … but the question is, which movie delivers?”
– From this week’s Now and Then Column, AMCtv.com
