
In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility. MI-5 Agent Mac offers a deal to Collette to become an informer. She accepts the agreement to protect her son and in return Mac offers a new identity to her after a period working for the MI-5. Soon Mac learns that his superior Kate Fletcher is using Collette to protect her mole inside the Irish organization. Mac tries to find the identity of the informer and protect Collette.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility. MI-5 Agent Mac offers a deal to Collette to become an informer. She accepts the agreement to protect her son and in return Mac offers a new identity to her after a period working for the MI-5. Soon Mac learns that his superior Kate Fletcher is using Collette to protect her mole inside the Irish organization. Mac tries to find the identity of the informer and protect Collette.
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| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonDistilling a country's worth of tensions down to the dynamics of a single household, Marsh has produced a thriller so taut that it makes last year's masterclass in dread, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, pale in comparison. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasA powerful and effective film that really gets across the tense situation in Northern Ireland in a way unlike any other movie |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA riveting thriller that takes the viewer into the terror of the IRA machine. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThe acting in this film is very good. The plot is lean and powerful. It is pretty depressing, but it seems true enough in its depiction of this troubled period of history. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldSandra HallShadow Dancer is a quietly devastating story of the poisonous effect of northern Irish politics on the life of a single family. |
| SlateDana StevensRiseborough's ever-mobile face is a study as Collette cycles from hopelessness to panic to mama-bear rage. |
| SF CrowsnestFrank OchiengThe taut political suspense thriller Shadow Dancer spins a tale of terrorism that works fabulously on the nerves...smart and resourceful enough to play its conflicting confines as sedate yet edgy with underlying tension and betrayal. |
| Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerJames Marsh carries forward the mood and menace of the opening into the balance of the work, perfectly matching his aesthetic strategies to the story's shifting moral terrain. |
| HollywoodChicago.comBrian TallericoA slow-burn thriller that may be a bit too slow at times but builds in power by the final reel. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyDirector James Marsh, best known for his documentaries Man On Wire and Project Nim, crafts an atmosphere of tenuous dread. |