Film Review: ‘The Traitor’: The Man Who Took Down the Sicilian Mafia

Anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) listens to evidence provided by Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino) who is turning against the Mafia. Sony Pictures Classics

R | 2h 25min | Biography, Crime, Drama | 31 January 2020 (USA)

Turncoat, snitch, squealer, fink, pentito, stoolie—in underworld circles there are many devious types of characters, but there are no roles that are more maligned than that of the rat.