THE REPORT (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Adam Driver (Paterson), Annette Bening (American Beauty), Jon Hamm (Baby Driver), Jennifer Morrison (Superfly), Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Ben McKenzie (Junebug), Jake Silbermann (Let Me Make You a Martyr), Matthew Rhys (The Post), Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Michael C. Hall (Cold in July), Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy), Dominic Fumusa (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi), Noah Bean (Peter and Vandy), Douglas Hodge (Joker), Corey Stoll (Ant-Man), T. Ryder Smith (Brainscan), Fajer Al-Kaisi (The Jew of Malta), Linda Powell (Morning Glory), John Rothman (Adam), Joanne Tucker (Listen Up Philip), Ian Blackman (Hail, Caesar!), Zuhdi Boueri (film debut), Carlos Gómez (In Hell), Ratnesh Dubey (Born Guilty), Scott Shepherd (Bridge of Spies), Kate Beahan (Burning Man), James Hindman (Ocean’s Eight), Austin Michael Young (Manzana’s Restaurant), Joseph Siravo (Equity)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Scott Z. Burns (Pu-239), director, writer, producer; Jennifer Fox (Nightcrawler), Danny Gabai (Lords of Chaos), Eddy Moretti (Heavy Metal in Baghdad), Kerry Orent (Michael Clayton), Steven Soderbergh (The Laundromat) and Michael Sugar (Spotlight), producers; David Wingo (Take Shelter), composer; Eigil Bryld (In Bruges), cinematographer; Greg O’Bryant (Echo Park), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Daniel Jones (Driver), an idealistic Senate staffer, is tasked by his boss, Senator Dianne Feinstein (Bening), to lead an investigation into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, created in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. He soon finds several damaging secrets that have been covered up by the nation’s top intelligence agency, which might not have acted within the law…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Steven Soderbergh’s regular writer Scott Z. Burns directs this riveting look into the investigation that exposed the CIA’s role in torturing terror suspects, in what might be the most thrilling investigative film of its kind since Spotlight.

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FRIDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2019

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