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Israeli spymaster Martin Kurtz (Michael Shannon), who fancies himself a storyteller, concocts the plan.
Gadi travels across Europe with Charlie, creating a backstory that will set up her infiltration of the group.
A little of this sort of thing goes a long way.
Sometimes it edits moments together in ways that create confusion or a misimpression, then resolves things later.
Judged purely as a piece of narrative architecture,The Little Drummer Girlis dazzling.
But the rest of the core cast is ill-served.
Skarsgard fails to create the Man of Mystery the story requires.
