The Courier
PG-13; Historical Drama
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze
Rating: ***

Dominic Cooke’s crisis drama scripted by Tom O’Connor is fashioned around a Cold War spy (special recruit) Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his Russian source, who try to put an end to the Cuban Missile crisis. It’s based on a real-life event about a high-placed Russian with classified information assuring Western intelligence that the only way to get them data was through an ordinary man with no government affiliation.