Synopsis
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
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Cast
- Liam NeesonMark Felt
- Diane LaneAudrey Felt
- Maika MonroeJoan Felt
- Wendi McLendon-CoveyCarol Tschudy
- Julian MorrisBob Woodward
- Josh LucasCharlie Bates
- Tony GoldwynEd Miller
- Kate WalshPat Miller
- Michael C. HallJohn Dean
- Marton CsokasPat Gray
Recommendations
- 70
Screen Daily
A solidly engrossing political drama, anchored by a commanding central performance from Liam Neeson. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
It's a role very well suited to Liam Neeson, whose righteousness fills the screen and sometimes seems all the movie can offer. - 60
ScreenCrush
The screenplay, written by director Peter Landesman and based on books by Felt and John D. O’Connor, does a fine job of condensing a sprawling conspiracy into a digestible feature, although it sometimes favors clarity over nuance and winds up enunciating important plot points in glaringly unnatural dialogue. - 50
The Playlist
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House couldn’t be more timely, yet those parallels never quite resonate. - 50
Variety
"Mark Felt,” despite bits of bureaucratic cloak-and-dagger intrigue and a commanding lead performance by Liam Neeson, is a film that pings off relevance more than it feels charged with it. - 50
Vox
For its faults as a movie, the story is still compelling as a bit of history, and more so in the midst of a presidential administration that at times seems to be taking all the wrong lessons from Nixon. - 50
The A.V. Club
Unfortunately, Felt’s actions, while historically important, don’t exactly make for riveting drama, especially compared to a classic about two dogged reporters. Nor does the film succeed in making Felt himself particularly interesting, except perhaps as a proxy—purely by coincidence, one assumes, given any movie’s lengthy gestation period—for another, recently terminated FBI honcho. - 50
The New York Times
“Mark Felt” is a sharp portrait set against a blurry background, a history lesson that won’t help you on the test. It is possible to savor the crags and shadows of Mr. Neeson’s performance without quite grasping why Mr. Landesman thinks the story is worthy of such somber, serious and sustained attention.
