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Wasp Network

2019

Olivier Assayas

Edgar Ramirez, Wagner Moura, Penélope Cruz, Ana de Armas ...

5.7

2,701

Thriller Havana, in the early 90s. René González, a Cuban pilot, steals a plane and flees Cuba, leaving his beloved wife and daughter behind. He starts a new life in Miami. Other Cuban deserters soon follow him and they institute a spy ring. Their mission is to infiltrate the violent anti-Castro organisations responsible for terrorist attacks on the island.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A big, handsomely shot movie with a strong cast and stunning location work. But it's also a knotty tangle of endless back and forth between too many characters, situations and settings"	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A surprising disappointment (...) Even the greats slip a bit every now and then"	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Taken in pieces, there’s more here to like than the muted response to this film from Venice and TIFF last year would have you believe. (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Despite a great subject, a superb cast and muscular imagery, Olivier Assayas’ Cuban spy thriller seems cut down from a longer mini-series, leaving viewers feeling shortchanged."	NEU
United States	Christina Newland The Playlist	"The emotional power provided by Ramirez and Cruz is worth mentioning (...) But this power is stunted by the messiness of Assayas’ delivery, and his refusal to clean up the tangled narrative threads that his film leaves hanging"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Assayas is among the world's greatest filmmakers, but his rushed and scattered Cuban spy epic bites off more than it can chew"	NEU
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"[It] was probably doomed to failure from the moment that Assayas decided to create a structure that involved jumping the narrative back four years in the middle of the movie."	NEG
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"[It] might have been better conceived as a series from the start. So many characters, conspiracies and plot twists are introduced (...) Still, there’s a verve and pep to the exercise"	NEU

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