Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a thoroughly British film, frustrating in its restraint, maddeningly edited, and painfully paced.  Its hero, George Smiley, is the anti-Bond.  He catches a mole in the upper echelon of the British government by researching through boxes of files, talking to people, and thinking.  This is also the contents of the film.  Slam-…