Atomic Blonde (2017)

US 115m, Color
Director: David Leitch; Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan, John Goodman, Toby Jones, James Faulkner, Roland Møller, Sofia Boutella as Delphine

Atomic Blonde in a gritty action spy thriller based on Sam Hart’s 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City. Told in flashback as the debriefing of an MI6 field agent, this is the story of Lorraine Broughton’s attempt to safely escort a Stasi defector out of East Germany and to retrieve a list of double agents that he has in his possession. Set to pop music of the era, and evoking the mood of the period and place, this is a highly stylized and superbly shot action film that contains some of the finest hand-to-hand combat sequences in film (Klaus Ming October 2017).