Here and there, "The Company" is so evocatively dark and creepy it approaches the artistry of a John le Carré thriller, at least as adapted for TV back in the '80s and '90s.

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The miniseries expends entirely too much time, energy and resources in off-the-mark excursions, staging entire revolutions with tanks, planes and guns blazing, when the real triumph lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

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It's very long and very tedious, and to sit through it all may require sainthood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 10, 2019

Yes, it's stupid to criticize a miniseries for being long, since length is the point of the format. The problem here isn't absolute length, it's the ratio of length to fresh, worthwhile story.

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The Company should be cable-TV catnip for those who cannot get enough of the agency -- an audience that appears to be growing based on the current pop culture preoccupation with all things CIA.

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The plot gets hijacked too often by romantic subplots. With just six hours to cover 40 years of history, "The Company" needs a tighter focus on action and intrigue.

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My top-secret instructions to you: watch "The Company" for [Alfred] Molina and [Chris] O'Donnell. Watch for the smart dialogue and the sweep of historical events. But mostly watch for [Michael] Keaton in a career-best performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 10, 2019

It's loaded with stunning cinematography and stirring dramatic set pieces.

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Michael Keaton is exceptional as a bitter spycatcher and Alfred Molina plays a flinty-eyed realist. [John] LeCarré-like in its disillusionment with power, this is good historical fiction for warm August nights.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 10, 2019

This is an ambitious, accomplished and overall enthralling effort that saves its very best for those riveting closing hours.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Oct 10, 2019

"The Company" delivers no real chills, just a quaint Cold War amusement park ride.

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It evokes an era worth revisiting, reconsiders a time that was an important chapter in our history and gives us a monumental performance by [Michael] Keaton.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 10, 2019

Thanks to sleek production values, a generally top-notch cast and an absorbing overall story that smartly mixes explosive action with quieter moments of sinister intrigue, "The Company" delivers a refreshingly solid jolt of summertime Big Event drama.

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Bleak but intriguing, "Company" is a brilliant reflection of the mind-set that dominated world politics for a half century. Solid performances are the rule, with special applause for [Alfred] Molina and [Michael] Keaton.

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Unfortunately, the project is too short to do its subject matter justice and too long and clumsy to keep us involved - a problem compounded by Chris O'Donnell's boyishly bland performance as The Company's central agent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2019

The final installment of "The Company" is in very good company with some of the best TV movies of the past few years.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2019

"The Company" provides a welcome break from that reality; it's an escape into the bracing, deluded days before the cold war ended, and the war on terror took its place.

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"The Company" is truly gripping when it leaves mushy romantic plotlines aside and stops banging the pox-on-both-your-houses drum.

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[Michael] Keaton plays Angleton as a man of few words and many cigarettes and darting glances. It's a labored, mannered performance at odds with [Alfred] Molina's antic energy and [Chris] O'Donnell's dullness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 9, 2019

"The Company" is well worth spending six hours watching.

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