A Private War (2018)
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Critic Consensus: A Private War honors its real-life subject with a sober appraisal of the sacrifices required of journalists on the front lines - and career-best work by Rosamund Pike.
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as Marie Colvin
as Paul Conroy
as Tony Shaw
as Sean Ryan
as Kate Richardson
as Rita Williams
as Norm Coburn
as Zoe
as Amy Bentham
as Gaddafi
as Adam Watkins
as Remi Ochlik
as Sri Lankan Hospital Patient
as Old Time Friend
as Tamilselvan
as Nurse
as Ignacio
as Sri Lankan Hospital Patient
as Newcaster #2
as Lily Shaw
as Newspaper Editor
as Sri Lankan Hospital Patient
as Nurse
as Gaddafi's Aid
as Passerby
as Newscaster #3
as Kensington Party Member
as Young Female Journalist
as Lady at Party
as Sri Lankan Hospital Doctor
as Newscaster #1
as Gaddafi Soldier
as Iraqi Captain
as US Public Affairs Officer
as Mrs. Lee - Gypsy Mother
as Amy's Friend
as Abdallah
as Iraqi Militia Corporal
as Iraqi Construction Foreman
as Head of Media Syria
as Faruq
as Sick War Child
as Tamil Group Leader
as Iraqi Militia Officer 1
as Gaddafi Translator
as Iraqi Militia Officer 2
as Walid
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Despite the undeniably extraordinary feats that Colvin achieved in life and on the edge of death, A Private War is a hagiography that reduces a complicated woman down to trauma, booze, and typing.
The most surprising - positively surprising - performance in the film comes from Jamie Dornan.
A fact-based feature film both celebrating and illuminating the disappearing, dangerous art of the war correspondent.
A reporter is never the story - the story is the story. But if looking at the reporter helps you see the story, and the human beings the story is about, then the effort may be worth it. "A Private War" is worth it.
Heineman and screenwriter Arash Amel remind the audience not just of the humanism that drives so many reporters, but also the extreme danger they put themselves in to bring us the truth.
Pike triumphs in this emotionally and physically taxing role.
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