It's actually somewhat mystifying what drew Pitt to his role in Robert Zemeckis' dreary spy thriller opposite Marion Cotillard, given that finding depth in straight-up romantic drama has never been his strongest suit. (By the Sea, anyone?) There's also an element of fatigue in watching him return to a WWII setting yet again, having explored the period with such flavorful bad-boy edge in Inglourious Basterds and then revisited it with gruff bravado in the visceral Fury.

Stuck here playing a gentleman secret operative from Canada working for the British government's Special Operations Executive, Pitt gives a constricted, stiffly internalized performance that just reads as disengaged. He's rarely been less interesting. — D.R.