MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review The Stranger, Undertone, and Outcome
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a resonant film on how the US government attempted to gag the press during the Vietnam war
WILL STONE applauds the anniversary tour of Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches by Madchester icons, Shaun and Bez
JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
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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