The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama (2001)

  • 77% of critics liked it
    (113 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (12,075 ratings)

Set amidst the controversy of the handover of the Panama Canal from America to Panama in late 1999, this espionage thriller follows seductive British spy Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), who has found himself recently banished to Panama. When Osnard stumbles into a tailor shop, he meets Harry Pendel… More

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Mar 30, 2001 Limited
Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

    If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.

  • Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic

    Seems diligently assembled.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    Elegant, sophisticated and very funny in a sly, subtle, wordy way.

  • Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle

    A literate and entertaining comic thriller.

  • Susan Stark, Detroit News

    A wise, vivid, thoughtfully textured film.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    I really don't think this does John le Carre's novel any justice at all but who would have thought John Boorman would have messed it up!? Geoffrey Rush is very good as always but apart from Harold Pinter in an inspired bit of casting, it is a bad day in the office for… More

  • Randy T


    An intriguing tale of espionage and coercion in Central America. *<i>Geoffrey Rush never ceases to amaze me and his performance here is no exception</i>.

  • Dean !


    A run of the mill espionage thriller, comedy? I was hoping for a bit more. Good cast but I just didn't find the story that interesting.

  • Derek D


    The film is good enough, I guess, but it just wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be. Geoffrey Rush is always good and this is no exception here, but Brosnan seems too at-ease as a British agent (what a stretch there, huh?). Jamie Lee Curtis and Brendan Gleeson put in… More

  • Ken S


    Amazing soundtrack

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