from Facebook: how factual must based-on-fact films actually be?
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Truth
Spotlight movie review: all the pope’s men
An elegy for old-school reportage and the people who pursue it, and a journalistic procedural with a snappy rush of urgent discovery and consequence.
Where Are the Women? Truth
An exception to the unspoken Hollywood rule about dismissing women’s stories as worth telling. (Yet this one probably got told only because it impacted men.)
Truth movie review: when journalistic truth is ugly (LFF 2015)
A fascinating look at the pitfalls of modern journalism, and a compelling portrait of a journalist who paid a high price for letting them trip her up.
