The Report

    The Report
    2019

    Synopsis

    The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

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    Cast

    • Adam DriverDaniel Jones
    • Annette BeningDianne Feinstein
    • Jon HammDenis McDonough
    • Sarah GoldbergApril
    • Michael C. HallThomas Eastman
    • Douglas HodgeJames Mitchell
    • Fajer KaisiAli Soufan
    • Ted LevineJohn Brennan
    • Jennifer MorrisonCaroline Krass
    • Tim Blake NelsonRaymond Nathan

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Variety

      Burns, by trusting the audience, has created a darkly authentic political thriller that does exactly what a movie like this one should do. It leaves you chastened and inspired.
    • 91

      Uproxx

      The Report has just enough humor and absurdity and Adam Driver to cut through its justified righteous indignation. It doesn’t sacrifice importance for entertainment, or vice versa.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Audaciously cerebral and unabashedly granular, writer-director Scott Z. Burns' political thriller The Report, a dramatization of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee's 2014 probe into the CIA's use of torture in the wake of 9/11, is practically pornography for policy wonks.
    • 83

      IndieWire

      The coolheaded patience of Burns’ approach is precisely what makes “The Report” so powerful in the end, not only as a lucid crystallization of our country’s recent political history, but also as an urgent reminder of how a world that prioritizes emotions over ethics will eat itself alive.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      The Report is an angry, urgent film that rarely raises its voice, smartly conveying inhumanity and injustice without unnecessary drama. I found it thrilling.
    • 80

      Screen Daily

      It’s intelligent and clever scripting, and except for a few moments where the dialogue is overly expository, as if Burns doesn’t trust his audience, The Report pulls back the curtain on America’s political machinations and one of its most appalling policy decisions and attempted cover-ups with startling clarity.
    • 75

      The Film Stage

      While Burns is certainly damning of the forces that let these tactics be utilized, the message of the film is ultimately more about coming clean as a nation for one’s mistakes and the oversight needed between branches to have a government of integrity.
    • 75

      The Playlist

      There is drama in the source material for sure, but maybe a little more style could have helped elevate this moment in history for the masses.

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    • Danka S. Kojić