MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG-13
100 minutes

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format: 35mm

Salt (2010)

Director Phillip Noyce teams with screenwriters Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) and Brian Helgeland (Mystic River) to craft this thriller starring Angelina Jolie as dedicated CIA officer Evelyn Salt, who is accused by a defector of being a Russian spy. With each attempt Salt makes to prove her innocence, her mentor, Winter (Liev Schreiber), only grows more suspicious of her true motivations. The longer she eludes capture by ambitious CIA agent Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the higher the stakes get. [allmovie.com]

Salt is a smart, fast, breathless blast of a spy flick that emulates the Bourne films in all the right ways.
      -- Tom Long, Detroit News. Read this review.