2017 · drama · biography · history
The Post
Directed by Steven Spielberg1h 56m2017
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Our read: The Post (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · biography · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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