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ENIGMA (2002)

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Rated: R; Video Release Date: Sep 24, 2002; Genres: Historical, Romance, Thriller; With: Jeremy Northam, Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet; Distributor: Miramax

C+

By Allyssa Lee

Such a talented cast and crew deserve a better movie. In a drab, gray, WWII British intel headquarters, Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) is a drab, gray mathematician/U-boat code breaker haunted by former lover and suspected spy Claire (Saffron Burrows), who's gone AWOL. A bespectacled Kate Winslet plays Claire's dowdy roommate. Michael Apted's direction and the Tom Stoppard script zing here and there, but Enigma's few tense moments don't add up to a satisfying puzzle.

Posted Sep 27, 2002

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