Skip to main content Currently Reading 'The Courier' is a throwback to the kind of solid yet fun spy thriller they don't make anymore Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Benedict Cumberbatch, left, plays real-life Cold-War spy Greville Wynne in "The Courier."Liam Daniel/Lionsgate and Roadside AttractionsShow MoreShow Less 2of3Jessie Buckley in "The Courier."Liam Daniel/Lionsgate and Roadside AttractionsShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Benedict Cumberbatch delivers an appealing, technically tricky performance in "The Courier," in which he plays Greville Wynne, a British salesman who in the 1960s became an improbable player in Cold War tradecraft at its most high-stakes.