A Most Wanted Man: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Smart John le Carré adaptation featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman
Year: 2014
Certificate: 15
John le Carré's espionage novels have always been popular with film-makers. This adaptation of his 2008 offering doesn't have the exotic, sun-drenched locations of The Night Manager - it is set in an oppressively murky Hamburg - but it does have a mesmerising central performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman.
In what was to be one of the actor's final leading roles before his death in 2014, Hoffman plays Gunther Bachmann, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders as, post-9/11, he leads an operation to root out the city's jihadis. Gunther, as always, has much to juggle, and this intelligent drama follows him with the same steady patience and careworn integrity that the character exudes. (117 minutes)
