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The makers of this extra-­crunchy popcorn movie -- an Inside Man-ish heist flick, but also a spy tale, and ultimately a tribute to an exuberant game of chicken -- claim it’s based on a true story. If they’re serious, then it’s also a masterpiece of investigative journalism, one that shows British intelligence agents concocting a scheme too baroque to believe. Follow this exhilarating loop: In 1971 an ex-­model named Martine (Burrows, as glossy as everything else on display) gets busted smuggling dope into Heathrow, and her part-­time bedmate, a man on the rise at MI5, helps her out of the jam in exchange for a little favor.