With Steven Spielberg signing on to direct the film a mere month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Post stands as one of mainstream Hollywood’s first direct confrontations and condemnations of the Trump presidency and its culture of pervasive deception, corruption, and debasement of America’s political institutions. Perhaps not since Samuel Fuller’s Park Row (1952) has there been a film as passionately enamored with the American newspaper business and its role as democracy’s first line of defense. And despite being comprised almost entirely of scenes of nervous men and women standing around cluttered newsrooms and spacious parlors, the film roils with the nervous, breathless energy that enervated so many of his big-budget blockbusters. Make no mistake: this is Spielberg at the height of his powers, both as supreme cinematic craftsman and tireless interrogator of the myths and legends we Americans create and tell about ourselves.
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