Spy Dame

KATE WINSLET'S SLEUTHING ACT,ENIGMA

Enigma is based on the thriller by Robert Harris and blessed with a smart script by Tom Stoppard. Lorne Michaels and Mick Jagger are the producers, doing audiences the double favor of making a fine, suspenseful movie while taking time off from Saturday Night Live spinoffs and Rolling Stones reunions. The picture is set during World War II at Bletchley Park, the topsecret estate where a bunch of carelessly groomed English puzzle fanatics cracked the Nazis' now notorious Enigma code. The players include Dougray Scott as a tortured mathematical genius; Saffron Burrows, seriously sexy, as the femme fatale; and an improbably prim Kate Winslet looking like Marian the Librarian, acting like Nancy Drew, and seeming to have a ball. As for the plot, someone may or may not be a German spy, someone else definitely is, but, in the end, the Allied cause is advanced. (Rating: ★★★)

B.H.