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Review: The Post spotlights The Washington Post‘s coming of age

01/21/18 / SR Staley / Leave a comment / Film Reviews, Films / film review, Independent Institute, Maryl Streep, movie review, Pentagon Papers, Steven Spielberg, The Post, The Washington Post, Tom Hanks

My complete review of The Post is live at the Independent Institute. Advertised as a political thriller, the movie is really an excellent “coming of age” story for the venerable newspaper The Washington Post and its publisher Katherine Graham.

Graham inherited the paper when her husband committed suicide in the early 1960’s. She didn’t know much about business or journalism. So, she had to learn on the job.

But Graham was reluctant to give up her high-society social life which involved close personal relationships with politicians and White House staff. When the Pentagon Papers were leaked to The New York Times, she had to make a big decision that could put her family’s paper in financial jeopardy.

I observe:

The Washington Post is now a stalwart of the national press corps, but, as the movie The Post makes clear, its status was not assured. Neither was the future of the Freedom of the Press in the wake of Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of The Pentagon Papers in 1971 in what may be the most heralded case of federal  whistleblowing.

This is a very strong movie. Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Meryl Streep as Katherine Graham and Tom Hanks as Editor-in-Chief Ben Bradlee, the movie has a tight script, excellent supporting cast, and a message highly relevant to today’s times.

My rubric generated a 9.63 on a scale of 10, a solid “A” and the highest score any movie has received from the 2017 crop of films.

Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes can be found here.

Reviews at Metacritic can be found here.

 

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