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- 80Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterCompelling as a tale of Cold War intrigue and fraught international relations, Castro’s Spies is equally gripping on a human level especially when the focus settles on emotional accounts of what happened to each one of the five.
- 80The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeThe Irish TimesDonald ClarkeOne is tempted to demand a dramatic movie based on these yarns, but Castro’s Spies tells its story so compellingly that no such compromise is necessary.
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayCastro’s Spies becomes genuinely challenging once Aslin and Lennon get to the trials of these men, who argued they were acting within the bounds of U.S. law to push back against the actions of a country that had interfered in Cuban affairs for more than a century.
- 60CineVueMatthew AndersonCineVueMatthew AndersonProceeding with a linear chronology to the present day, Castro’s Spies does justice to the long trials and many tribulations of its engaging subjects without ever flying too far off the expected route.