It’s a Steven Spielberg film, so you can assume it: looks great on the screen; the acting is of high quality (Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star, with many familiar actors in supporting roles); has its share of clichéd moments; but is very agreeable and enjoyable. These assumptions are true for this Hollywood version of the story about the Washington Post’s fight to publish the contents of the Pentagon Papers (classified documents which contradicted the US government’s public messaging about its involvement in Vietnam) in 1971. Nostalgia for old-fashioned journalism (and the old way of publishing of a newspapers) that seems appropriate for our times.
