The star turns in his most convincing performance for years in this sturdy story of accidental spy Greville Wynne and his role in averting nuclear crisis
There’s an old-fashioned sturdiness to Cold War drama Ironbark, the kind not often seen at Sundance, alluded to by festival director John Cooper before its world premiere. Park City doesn’t often see many period films of this scale he said and its inclusion, arriving like many films here without a distributor, will likely cause a heated auction in the next few days. Because unlike so many of the more muted titles that surround it, Ironbark is an unashamedly commercial film, wearing its tried-and-tested box-ticking formula on its sleeve, for better or worse.
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