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Just saw The Post. (I know I'm late to the game.) Meryl Streep was brilliant as usual and I loved the film's art direction, but every line in the dialogue felt like it was written specifically to give the audience background info it needed to follow the plot. This excerpt from the Entertainment Weekly crit summed it up perfectly.
"Spielberg makes these crucial days in American history easy to follow. But if you look at The Post next to something like All the President's Men, you see the difference between having a story passively explained to you and actively helping to untangle it. That's a small quibble with an urgent and impeccably acted film. But it's also the difference between a very good movie and a great one."
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