The Tailor of Panama: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

A literate and entertaining comic thriller.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Steven Rosen Denver Post (Top Critic)

The film has been directed with a shrewd balance of wit, tension, parody and empathy.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

100

A wise, vivid, thoughtfully textured film.
Full Review » 11 years ago
David Edelstein Slate (Top Critic)

The decision to let Brosnan play Osnard probably kept the Bond producers up a few nights, but letting him do it was the right call.
Full Review » 11 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

This plot-centered motion picture demands that its audience thinks rather than sits passively and watches.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

40

When the revolution turns real, the film finally collapses under the burden of implausibility.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Ellen MacKay Common Sense Media

40

Not a great movie -- for adults only.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Harry Guerin RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

60

Funny, frisky and always on the right side of plausible. Mission accomplished.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

88

I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rob Vaux Flipside Movie Emporium

0

It doesn't feel like a normal espionage thriller; it feels much, much better.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Sean Burns Philadelphia Weekly

A broad, ribald circus flagrantly in love with the English language, The Tailor bustles with swaggering, jubilant showmanship.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

88

Like "Three Kings," "The Tailor of Panama" is a political satire that emerged from the studio system with its fangs intact.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Luis Martinez Cinenganos

70

No es una pelicula facil ni para aquellos con estomago debil, debido a su explicito contenido sexual, su fuerte carga inmoral, su lenguaje y algunas escenas de violencia.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies

75

A movie for people who don't mind having their expectations played with, and who prefer wordplay over gunplay.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine

0

Deceptively rich and intriguing.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jorge Avila Andrade Moviola

75

Representa una buena oportunidad de esparcimiento y evasion
Full Review » 11 years ago
Carlo Cavagna AboutFilm.com

59

more a satire than a thriller
Full Review » 11 years ago
Greg Dean Schmitz Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies

88

John Boorman's direction here is impeccable, capturing well the look and sounds of Panama City, and mixing it in with the film's story.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

75

Brosnan is great as the nasty, manipulative spy, using his wits, charm and sex appeal to outmaneuver everyone around him.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews

59

There's no satisfaction in the wrapup
Full Review » 11 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

75

a post-Cold War black comedy about a corrupt world in which the kind of spying that made James Bond world famous no longer has a place
Full Review » 11 years ago
Ted Murphy Baseline.Hollywood.com

80

The near faithful screen adaptation, directed with finesse by John Boorman captures the spirit of the novel.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jeff Vice Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Despite its sometimes unfortunate reliance on four-letter dialogue and sexual material, this is a throwback to the more complex thrillers of the past.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

50

Neither thrilling nor particularly funny.
Full Review » 11 years ago