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The Post

 

 
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MPAA Rating: Rated R for Language, Brief War Violence, Historical Sexism and Rotary Phones Throughout.
 
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The Good


Taut, grownup drama with salient themes from a seasoned filmmaker. Great cast and an important story.

The Bad


Sideburns.


Bottom Line

Spielberg in one of his best modes having fun with history and politics.

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Posted 02/06/2018 by

 
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Grey, smoke-filled, late-twentieth-century historical drama is a strange subgenre to have mastered, but Spielberg has done it. The producer of Fievel Goes West is back with The Post, a drama of fairly recent history when The Washington Post let you read more than ten articles a month. Tom Hanks plays Ben Bradlee, the Post’s Editor in Chief who comes into possession of highly classified documents exposing the lies of multiple US presidents, back when Presidents were actively discouraged from lying on the job. Meryl Streep plays Katherine Graham, the owner of the Post, who must make the difficult decision whether or not to print the explosive Pentagon Papers on the front page or to relegate them to web-exclusive status. A strong supporting cast includes Bradley Whitford, Sarah Paulson, Alison Brie, Bob Odenkirk AND David Cross, and the federally mandated Michael Stuhlbarg. Streep wisely plays Graham not as a feminist badass but as a complicated human woman who makes a colossally difficult decision with trembling and good will. The ending is meant to inspire hope and patriotism, and it does that, though I am actually left to ponder how 2018 America might weather the kind of crisis depicted herein. 


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