In the build-up to the 1972 US elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward investigated what seemed to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters, the editor of the Post was prepared to run with the story and assigned Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. Their painstaking research found the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party and, eventually, into the White House itself and led to the downfall of Nixon. An intelligent and exciting dramatic reconstruction.< find out more...
The film is not another “Spotlight,” let alone an “All the President’s Men.” The writing, by Joey Hartstone (who scripted Mr. Reiner’s “LBJ”), has more interest in reaching the least-informed viewers than in realism. (Those who deal with national affairs coverage every day don’t have so many expository conversations explaining who’s who; Milla Jo find out more...