An excellent, excellent movie.

Rating: 10/10 (3 December 2012)

This is not an easy film to follow and I must say that I was, thanks to premium channel reruns, obliged to watch it five times. But, with each viewing, I saw wonderful acting that proffered subtle contributions to a plot that presented greater and greater insight into the brutal,vicious and mysterious world of "cold war" spying. If you stayed with "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" and ended up enjoying it, you'll like this film even more. Nearly every site is entrancing and nearly every scene is compelling. I'm 72 years of age and that may be the influencing factor, but tears of joy sprang into my eyes when, at the end of the film, George Smiley triumphed. As a number of other reviewers have noted, it was the best end to a movie I have ever seen.