![]() ![]() ![]() The film’s realism now plays like a forecast of recent years. As Bernstein said in a 2019 interview, the movie is great “because it’s about the process of reporting. But as Woodward and Bernstein knock on doors, their tenacity and devotion to facts feel timeless. Today a Google search would find in seconds information it took days to discover in the ’70s. William Goldman’s crackling script is one of the greats, and it includes the now familiar line “Follow the money.” The phrase has entered the culture so thoroughly that most people think Woodward’s source, Deep Throat (a perfectly cast Hal Holbrook), said it in real life. There are dead ends in the reporting, paranoid sources, clandestine late night meetings in a shadowy parking garage. Pakula makes every scene as tense as a cloak-and-dagger, filled with adrenaline. ![]()
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