Steven Spielberg directing Tom Hanks in a Cold War-era
espionage thriller with a script by Joel and Ethan Coen; what about that
description is not worth getting excited about? That’s all most people really
need to hear about Bridge of Spies to decide whether or not
it’s a movie they want to see, and while it isn’t a bad film by any stretch of
the imagination, those stellar pieces never come together like they need to, or
like they could have.
