Operation Mincemeat

"This is a classy production with a first-rate ensemble cast, splicing the story’s intrigue with a poignant vein of melodrama."

"The hand of history needn’t always be the headmasterly shoulder-clasp this is."

"The crackling pace is somewhat interrupted by a soapy love triangle between the three leads, which feels slightly shoehorned in..."

"It's a truly ripping yarn, to use period vernacular, to which John Madden's film mostly does proper justice."

"Madden keeps it all ticking over efficiently; no stranger to the genre... he confidently marshals the estimable British ensemble cast and maintains the tension."

"A bit of a fun old caper movie with the usual jingoistic trimmings."

"The real-life Operation Mincemeat was a tactical deception that demonstrated daring and defiance of authority, but John Madden's well-made, well-played film plays wholly by the rules."

"(Macfadyen) gets most of the best lines and quips and carries his role with a deft balance of sympathy and malign intent."

"Operation Mincemeat is watchable enough, but perhaps can’t find a fictional way into the stranger-than-fiction outrageousness of the scheme itself."

"The wholesome mood of spiffing pluck reminds us of the best of those British war movies actually made within shouting distance of 1945"