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 Bob Odenkirk Tracy Letts Bruce Greenwood Sarah Paulson Bradley Whitford Alison Brie Jesse Plemons Michael Stuhlbarg Matthew Rhys Carrie Coon David Cross 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…

Alternative Titles

The Post: Los Oscuros Secretos del Pentágono, The Post - A Guerra Secreta, Los archivos del Pentágono, 더 포스트, 더 포스트, 펜타곤 페이퍼, The Post: Los Oscuros Secretos Del Pentágono, The Papers, The Pentagon Papers

history drama

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Popular reviews

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 Griffin Newman 3

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

Recent reviews

Review by barbarulo ★★★★★

Superb acting. Full of drama. And a timely message.
Review by Abbie Macdonald ★★★★

Streep + Hanks, doesn't get any better.
Review by w4lt3r ★★★

white people were probably screaming the whole movie just by the fact tom hanks and meryl streep were starring in it
Review by livv_3 ★★★★

what a power combo; Spielberg, Hanks, Streep and Williams. No complaints.
Review by Xavier Brydges 1

An important story to be told, even though it's not a telling that will blow your socks off.
Review by danieltritt ★★★½

73/365
Good watch. Stories like these deserve to be told.
Review by sleepingjamie ★★★½

Given the calibre both in front and behind the camera, this should just be a better film. It’s still good. The period design is wonderful. I can’t help but feel that this is two films not given proper treatment. Meryl Streep’s feminism business owner story and the reporter story. Both get short thrift. It makes me nostalgic for an era of journalistic integrity that i don’t think really existed in my lifetime. I really liked seeing the printing press. It gets a bit worthy at times and doesn’t have many ‘Spielberg’ moments. Lots to admire rather than love.
Review by Nicholas_Santos ★★★★

Spielberg when he is into his bullshit, he still has it
Review by Lorenzo Ladogana ★★★½

I wasn't really looking forward to The Post, but i was genuinely and happily suprised by it.
I was actively enganged for all the steps of the report, following the arguments, the rush to the clues, the burocratic decisions and the moral ones. A compelling and solid drama that exceed both in term of direction and performance by the great cast.
Of course the ending is a bit mushy and retoric as you could expect from Spielberg, especially recently, but it didn't bother me that much. Overall, a solid, solid film.
Also: having Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep on scene together, what a treat!