This "Pentagon Papers exposé" can be considered a prequel to Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976), as Spielberg recreates the Washington Post offices mood and look from that film to a tee. And while that film was about sniffing out the truth against all odds, Spielberg adds a few more ingredients for his (first?) Trump era movie: speaking out the truth, even at your peril, even if you lose longtime friends. First time Hanks is out-shined by another actor (of course, the mighty Streep), and the climactic ending is spoiled, because after all, the Post still exists today.
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