2024 · history · drama · political
Reagan
Directed by Sean McNamara2h 21m2024
Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's when Reagan first caught the Soviets’ attention as an actor in Hollywood, Reagan overcomes the odds to become the 40th president of the United States.
Our read: Reagan (2024) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded history · drama · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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