'Bridge of Spies': Spielberg's take on the Cold War

There are many reasons to recommend Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies: the Cold War brought to life in vivid, disconcertingly timely ways; the quickstep hugger-mugger of G-men in fedoras tailing a foreign agent on the streets of New York; the noirish intrigue of early 1960s East Berlin, with its military checkpoints, its paranoia, its secret police.