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You just can’t argue against Hanks and Streep: The Post reviewed

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

Steven Spielberg’s The Post, which dramatizes the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, doesn’t exactly push at the frontiers of storytelling. It’s told straight and in a familiar way. Here are the journalists furtively working through top-secret government papers in a smoke-choked room for the public good.

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