Another Country

Where the original play was long and more meditative, making suspension of disbelief at least possible, here it just seems like nonsense.

A well-acted, literate but insufferably smug little movie that fictionalizes the life of Guy Burgess, who with Donald Maclean defected to Moscow in the early 1950's.

If you can get past the wacky premise—that the British public school system is the direct cause of (a) homosexuality and (b) communism—what remains is a dull, conventionally carpentered melodrama, a natural for miniseries expansion by PBS.

The wit is sophisticated, dry, and underplayed.

Its beauty is not only in its lush English countryside photography and gently moving camera but also in the warmth and humanness of its characters.

[The] moral would be trite if it didn't go unspoken; it becomes poignant because it's adamantly denied.

Impressive film adaptation of Julian Mitchell's award-winning play.

Elegantly shot, this fictionalized version of the British gay spy Guy Burgess, is intelligent but not entirely satisfying; even so, the young Rupert Everett and Colin Firth give splendid performances.

One of those sad affairs that commits exactly the sorts of errors that the filmmakers pretend to indict in wider society.