A scene in his spy thriller features a subtle nod to 'The Dark Knight,' when the Joker flinches after an explosion: "If someone like the Joker is going to flinch, the authenticity that it gave to that moment lasted with me.

Oscar winner Rami Malek both stars in and produces the new vigilante action thriller "The Amateur." He plays is Charlie Heller, a brilliant CIA decoder whose wife dies in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action,

The Amateur” expertly explores its premise, making it one of the better spy movies in years. The new Rami Malek-starrer has enough chase and fight sequences to qualify as an action movie (and a well-executed one,