Firing on all Oscar-bait cylinders, The Post is much more about the facts of the events than an insight into the people involved in them. It has some laughs in it, but it's far from a comedy.

It's all "what" and no "why", but also, The Post is built on this HUGE will-they-wont-they question with massive ramifications ("Will Nixon and LBJ be exposed") and it's what the whole 108 minute runtime is building up to, but... We already know. The things that happen in The Post are real events that are common knowledge. So it's kind of... The mystery of the moral quandary was answered before yo... read the rest.

The movie is very interesting and clearly very curated in the cast and scenography. It tells an important piece of American history and is an ode to press freedom.

However, I found it rather slow in development and a bit too lost in too many conversations. Lacks a bit of action/movement.

An ambitious film, very solid and with a lot of quality, but which turned out to be forgettable.

I've honestly lost count of the movies about Nixon I've seen. And I understand that! In the history of the American presidential institution, few presidents have stirred up as much controversy. He was a president who not only was willing to use his whole power, but also who abused from its use. And the media was one of his biggest and most fearsome enemies. In this film, the point of originality is that the focus is never Nixon or Watergate, but the main figures of The Washington Post in the... read the rest.