The Post

If the film has an MVP, it’s Bob Odenkirk, who does a splendid and quietly amusing job of playing The Post’s unsung Pentagon Papers hero, assistant managing editor Ben Bagdikian.

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Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks deliver the goods in The Post.

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Steven Spielberg's latest film stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in a drama about The Washington Post's role in publishing the Pentagon Papers.

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It looks back on a world of thriving newspapers. And asks us what happens if they’re gone.

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The Post, director Steven Spielberg’s gripping and taut tackling of the Pentagon Papers scandal, takes place in 1971 but happens to be the most politically timely high-profile Hollywood tale of 2017.

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This all-star drama about the Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers feels torn from today's headlines in the best way.

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Meryl Streep elevates The Post beyond its obvious message.

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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.

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Steven Spielberg’s feature tells a classic story of American journalism—the coming of age of the Washington Post—while Meryl Streep finds unforced beauty in her portrayal of the paper’s publisher, Katharine Graham.

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Perhaps in the age of fake news, partisan philosophies and undermining of the free press, the galvanizing “The Post” does need to idealize and remind the viewer just how fragile democracy can be during the reign of autocrats.

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Starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham, this drama about the Washington Post is squarely aimed at our current moment.

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Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, as the embattled leaders of The Washington Post, lead a bustlingly entertaining — and timely — docudrama about how the Pentagon Papers shifted American journalism's relationship to power.

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Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks play the stewards that built a vital, confrontational Washington Post.

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When a classified government study about the Vietnam war is leaked to the press, Washington Post owner Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) are keen to publish exposés. Standing in their way? Only the US government.

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‘The Post’ is the new great American movie.

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Steven Spielberg’s “The Post,” rushed into production on a turnaround time that only Ridley Scott could possibly match, may be the story of a challenge to the free press in 1971 but lines like that solidify how much it’s intended to also be read as a mirror of 2017.

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Steven Spielberg can’t make great drama out of The Post’s timely celebration of journalism.

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The daunting fact is that only mass movements truly change society for the better. But that’s a messy process with a lot of depressing history built in, and not ideal for narratives catering to prim liberal sensibilities.

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No American film since Zodiac has exhibited such a love for the way information travels than The Post.

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