The Amateur (2025)
Don't underestimate him.
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The Amateur rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.5/10· 97K votes
Rotten Tomatoes61%
Metacritic52%
TMDb6.945/10· 2K votesWith 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.5/10 on IMDb and 52/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About The Amateur
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
Cast of The Amateur
Rami Malek
as Heller
Holt McCallany
as Director Moore
Danny Sapani
as Caleb
Rachel Brosnahan
as Sarah
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Schiller
Laurence Fishburne
as Henderson
Julianne Nicholson
as Director O'Brien
Caitríona Balfe
as Inquiline
Jon Bernthal
as The Bear
Adrian Martinez
as Carlos
Evan Milton
as Slater
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Nick Mills
as Finn
The Amateur facts
- Budget
- $60M
- Box office
- $96M
Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026MethodologyData sources
Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •CIA-thriller premise enables high-stakes espionage tension
- •James Hawes delivers competent action-thriller direction
- •Computer-hacker subplot adds contemporary technical intrigue
What the audience disliked
- •Death-of-wife motivation feels emotionally contrived
- •Blackmail-CIA plot suffers from middling critical reception
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