Christmas Eve review " fizzling thriller feels like tuning in too late to Spooks
Ustinov studio, BathPatrick Baladi and Niamh Cusack impress in Daniel Kehlmann's two-hander about surveillance, but their characters are mere mouthpiecesJudith, a philosophy professor, is on her way to her parents' house for Christmas when she is stopped by the police, taken to a basement and interrogated by a man named Thomas. "What do you want from me?" she asks. Surely this respected, quietly spoken, neatly dresse…