MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Shooting the messengers
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on the shackling of journalists who exposed George W Bush’s draft dodging before he became president
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Truth (15)
Directed by James Vanderbilt
4/5
AFTER the Oscar-winning Spotlight comes another powerful newsroom drama, this time about the overwhelming pressures from the authorities, financial interests and 24-hour news that have been stifling and slowly killing off investigative journalism.
Truth outlines the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating president George W Bush’s military service record in the run-up to his second presidential election.
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