a romantic take on a fascinating true story, "Red Joan" features an underused - but affecting - Judi Dench; It should be a fast paced, edge of your seat spy thriller, but "Red Joan" feels more sedate period piece than high stake drama
a London octogenarian's hidden past as a spy for the USSR is exposed in this curiously flat drama; a would-be sweeping epic that instead turns out tweedy, dreary, and unconvincing