Bridge of Spies

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are one for three with Oscar so far. Saving Private Ryan was, of course, a piece of modern cinematic iconography, while Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal didn t tickle the Academy s fancy. Bridge of Spies looks almost rigidly handsome from afar, and Disney certainly isn t banging the gong (it was announced as part of the New York Film Festival line up as almost an afterthought). But this Cold War era drama about a Brooklyn lawyer negotiating the Soviet release of a U 2 spy plane pilot certainly looks like a player on paper. Sometimes, though, that s more like a caveat.