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…

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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…

I fully understand and appreciate the message that The Post tries to communicate. In this current political climate, it’s a very important one to support: Freedom of the Press is essential to the health of any democracy. The problem with The Post, however, is that it’s too focused on being an important movie that it doesn’t actually take the time to do the story its telling justice. It spends the whole movie telling us how important the press is but never gets around to actually showing us why the press is important. Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, The Post explores the cover-up, revealed by the infamous Pentagon Papers, that spanned four U.S. Presidents…

After Ready Player One i thought "well, maybe he´s losing it. His run is over and its all down hill from here". But after seeing The Post i understand that that is simply not the case. Ready Player One is just what he does to keep the studio happy. Honestly he´s basically mocking them, "here, have this piece of garbage movie that I can make while on the shitter". And the studio is happy to get some fucking CGI pop culture jerk fest fucking bullshit that they can slap his name in and feed to the brainless masses and Stevie can go back to making this kind of qualité with his real friend Tommie the Hank.

Ready Player One is…

It is quite remarkable: This is the very first time that Meryl Streep has worked with Steven Spielberg and the very first time that she has appeared on screen with Tom Hanks. Quite astonishing when you consider how long the three of them have been around. Their first movie for all three together is a very interesting look into an event that was overshadowed by Watergate, but that basically opened the way for the investigation by reporters into the dealings of the US Government. In 1971, political activist Daniel Ellsberg launched Top Secret papers about the involvement of the US government in Vietnam. Publishing newspapers New York Times and Washington Post were threatened by injunctions from the Department of Justice…