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MARIA DUARTE recommends a resonant film on how the US government attempted to gag the press during the Vietnam war
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
The Post (12A)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
A MASSIVE cover-up of US government secrets. The president trying to discredit and gag the press. Women battling for equality.
The Trump administration, 2018? No, The Post is set in 1971, when President Nixon attempted to stop the publication of the controversial Pentagon Papers.
The top-secret 7,000-page report outlined how successive US governments over three decades and four presidents knew they could never win the Vietnam war. They lied to the US people and said the contrary.
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