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The Post

2017 Directed by Steven Spielberg

Truth be told

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.

Meryl Streep Tom Hanks Sarah Paulson Bob Odenkirk Tracy Letts Bradley Whitford Bruce Greenwood Matthew Rhys Alison Brie Carrie Coon Jesse Plemons David Cross Michael Stuhlbarg Zach Woods Pat Healy John Rue Richard Holmes Philip Casnoff Jessie Mueller Stark Sands Michael Cyril Creighton Will Denton Brent Langdon Christopher Innvar Jennifer Dundas Deirdre Lovejoy Michael Devine Kelly Miller Austyn Johnson Show All…

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Review by Lucy ★★★★ 12

me six months ago: what the hell kind of boring shit is this gonna be
spielberg: happy awards season. here’s a movie, eat it up
me now: delicious. finally some good fucking food
Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 9

yeah the post is just fine but the whole time i couldn’t stop thinking about how cinematic masterpieces call me by your name AND paddington 2 were also playing and how i was stuck there watching a movie that’s just fine
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 21

There’s topical, there’s timely, and then there’s “The Post,” which feels less like a historical thriller set in 1971 than it does an exhilarating caricature of the year 2017. While Steven Spielberg’s latest film rivetingly dramatizes the publication of the Pentagon Papers (and eloquently unpacks the consequences of their dissemination), “The Post” wears the Nixon era like a flimsy disguise that it wants you to see right through.

That’s not to take away from Ann Roth’s ratty and exquisite period costume design, or to detract from how immaculately set decorator Rena DeAngelo recreated the smokey thrum of the old Washington Post newsroom. It’s certainly not to diminish Meryl Streep’s fraught and powerfully grounded portrayal of the late publishing scion Katharine…
Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 3

Double duty as a classic Spielberg old man movie and a calculated hot take. SPOTLIGHT but directed by one of the greatest born filmmakers currently working.
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★ 10

52/100

Wish I'd jotted down some notes on this, because a week later I can barely remember any details, apart from the pandering shot of Graham walking down the courthouse steps while a crowd made up exclusively of young women stare at her as if she's Athena descending Mount Olympus. And honestly I can't improve on the unsourced Facebook comment aptly observing (as paraphrased by David Edelstein) that "telling the Pentagon Papers story from the vantage of the Washington Post is like telling the Watergate story from the vantage of the New York Times." The overall stakes for the First Amendment are high, but the ground-level stakes for the Post itself (not counting the impending IPO, which is hard to…
Review by Griffin Newman 3

A Movie About People Who Are Good At Their Jobs made by people who are very, very good at their jobs.

Recent reviews

Review by Elias Elias ★★★

Spielberg and his formula. Everyone in it's right place, good performances (with that level of actors is what is expected), but really, nothing outstanding, just predictable.
Review by Bella ★★★½

Felt like Oscar bait. A interesting story that had great acting but felt kind of boring because of course it’s going to have a good acting. Didn’t feel as revolutionary as this movie should’ve felt.
Review by John Rodgers ★★★½

I found the process angle interesting, putting together a story in a high pressure situation, but the message maybe feels a little ham fisted, like the movie was just waiting around trying to deliver this weighty commentary not bothering with much subtext or nuance regarding the whole issue. I agree with it for the most part, but I feel like these kinds of situations need to be shown in shades of gray. Streep is absolutely brilliant as always, and Hanks’s mugging is fun as hell. Again, I just liked seeing everyone go through the papers and putting together a story and whatnot. That was the best part and it’s what Spielberg excels at.
Review by Justice O'Daniel ★★★½

This film feels like an exercise in "this movie needs to be made now" as opposed to "this is a story that really needs to be told." It's relevance and reflection of modern political stories is so in your face that it's hard to see The Post's story at face value at times. A president who is at odds with the law and the media. A group of reporters trying to dig up wrongdoing. I can see Spielberg reading this script and setting it on the fast track, which is apparently exactly what happened, with rave reviews and oscars in his eyes. All this isn't to say this is a bad movie or a cash grab. The Post largely succeeds…
Review by abby ★★★★

it’s basically a prequel to All The President’s Men which we stan
Review by CptPants ★★★½

A very worthy and earnest film, that addresses a number of issues that seem more relevant now than when raised in the context of a film set in early 70s - acceptance of women as business leaders, freedom of the press and that of the US President attempting to stifle the press. The drawback with all this attention to important issues, and giving Streep and Hanks, great "acting" moments is that it takes some of the edge off the story, and slows any kind of dramatic build up until the last third. Still a good film, but never approaches the heights of All the Presidents Men.
Review by Mark ★½

Wow. Majorly disappointing. Extremely disappointed in Meryl Streep, I expect this kind of hit and miss behaviour from Tom Hanks but come on Meryl... Not the first time Spielberg has sent me to sleep.
Review by OTIS GRUMBLE ★★★

The cast is an embarrassment of riches and there’s no doubting the timeliness and earnestness off the message.
But one can’t shake the feeling that this would work much better as a tv series rather than cramming it all in to a film.
Review by nerdietalk ★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

i fucking love that this oscar-bait movie ends with a SEQUEL HOOK for WATERGATE