When I walked into the theaters this past weekend for nighttime showing of “The Amateur” (2025), I was not expecting for my eyes to be glued to the screen for every single minute.

The Amateur may look like your run-of-the-mill spy movie, but it’s surprisingly silly and often surprising. The set-up is ...

The Amateur (2025) is an American vigilante spy action movie directed by James Hawes, adapted from Robert Littell's 1981 ...

In an interview with SCREEN, James Hawes talks about directing The Amateur, how Rami Malek's spy is a huge departure from Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible, and the connective tissue ...

The Amateur came out on April 11, 2025, and met with mixed critical response; it holds a 61% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. James Hawes directed the film while Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli wrote this film.

The Amateur is strange, because it presents itself as a revenge thriller and a man dealing with grief, but there's a lot more subtextual nuance to what's going on. Let us explain.

The Amateur (2025) is an American action spy thriller directed by James Hawes, based on Robert Littell’s 1981 novel.

Born May 30, 1932 in New York City, the third son of David Harris Israel and Ruth Sturtz. His father’s parents fled a ghetto ...

Rami Malek's new spy movie, The Amateur, featured an insanely creative death scene, but the trailer had already given it away reducing its impact.