The Post
*ing: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks Rated: 9/10 Can a Steven Spielberg-Tom Hanks-Meryl Streep team up be anything but a big, splashy wonder? The Post seems heading for the Oscars on more counts than one but that’s not the real feather in the cap of this amazing venture. The real thing about The Post is how it manages to engross you so completely that you never find a moment to point out how utterly slow the proceedings actually are. Other than that, but most importantly, the film brings into focus the relevance of journalism in a time when it has been caricaturised by paid news, so-called product endorsing lifestyle journalism and the crippling perception about the overall needlessness of the print medium. Based on The Washington Post’s effort to throw up the eternal corruption in the corridors of power (this time through the Vietnam saga) it has Tom Hanks in a brilliantly done role of Editor Ben Bradlee who eggs on his publisher and owner Katherine Graha...