The Courier | 2020 | PG-13 | 1h 52min In today’s revolutionary climate, now’s a good time to have a look at “The Courier” and remember (or learn about for the first time) the 1960’s Cuban missile crisis. Where the insane, Hitler-like USSR Chairman Nikita Khrushchev—he, who used to bang his shoe on podiums during political speeches—tried to escalate the Cold War by putting nuclear warheads on Cuba and pointing them at the United States.   Based on a true story, “The Courier” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as run-of-the-mill British businessman Greville Wynne, who was recruited in the early 1960s by Britain’s MI6, and CIA agent Emily Donovan (Rachel Brosnahan). The plan was for Wynne to secretly team up with Soviet official Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) to provide the United States with enough actionable intelligence to enable President Kennedy to prevent a nuclear showdown with the USSR. Col. Penkovsky ran the Soviet state committee for scientific research. …