Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep impress as Washington Post bigwigs fighting to expose government lies about the Vietnam war in the director’s timely drama.
The Post is a thoroughly enjoyable film, on a par with the very similar but slightly more subtle Spotlight. In the age of ideology over art, if the latter can win a Best Picture Oscar, it's hard to see how the former can't, especially given its added timeliness.
Set nearly half a century ago, but remarkably prescient in these “fake news” times, The Post is an engaging and masterfully acted tale sure to be in the running come the Oscars.
A timely look at a fight to be heard – in the boardroom or the press – that’s elegant without being electric.
Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks team up for this flashy Oscar bait from Steven Spielberg.
In the canon of the best recent newspaper movies, The Post is the equal of Spotlight – and may well emulate its success at the Oscars. It underlines Spielberg’s continuing ability to entertain us even as he holds up a mirror to the less attractive side of American history and politics.
A film about rushing to meet a deadline that feels like it was made that way.
Spielberg ensures the film is also a hugely entertaining piece of storytelling that sets the pulse racing and keeps you enthralled until the very last moment.
In revisiting 1970s America and Nixon’s attempts to suppress the truth about the Vietnam War, Spielberg, Streep and Hanks have found the perfect film for our times.
Steven Spielberg’s urgent 70s-set thriller stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a timely lesson on the need for a vigilant press.
The Post is a timely reminder of the struggle between press freedom and government lies.
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