With a career-defining performance byChris Cooper,Breachis built out of slow but entirely effective tension.

Army of Shadowsisa film that’s as much about espionage as it is about war.

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Tony Mendez and Jack O’Donell walking down a hallway while talking in ‘Argo’

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Matt Damon and Robert De Niro sitting in an office in ‘The Good Shepherd’

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Ulrich Mühe with headphones on in ‘The Lives of Others’

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George Clooney and a burning car in ‘Syriana’

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Ryan Philippe and Chris Cooper in ‘Breach’

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A man tied to a chair sits and a man sitting a desk in ‘Army of Shadows’

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Richard Burton sitting on the ground in ‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’

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James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) sits on the train reading the newspaper in ‘Bridge of Spies’ (2015).

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Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, David Dencik, and Toby Jones in ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’

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