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Critics 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.
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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It's a powerful but clear-eyed acknowledgment of the importance of journalism.
While it occasionally pulls away from Colvin to let the nightmarish inhumanity of war provide power and feeling, it all too often relies on juiced-up expressions of humanist heroism.
"A Private War" doesn't ask you to understand the politics of war, only the human side. And it shows the toll war takes on people's souls, most of which it never gives back.
An intelligent and sophisticated biopic with a tour-de-force performance from Pike.
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.
It reminds us about the humanism that drives the life of some war correspondents and the risks they take for the sake of the truth.
The life and work of an award-winning female war correspondent whose zeal for the truth made her into a fearless person.
Rosamund Pike delivers a career best performance.
Resoundingly received with dramatic urgency--hauntingly involving in its depiction of the scarred psyches of journalists. Pike gives a powerful and revealing performance as the late Colvin that embraced her high-risk occupation with abrasive enthusiasm
A Private War tells Marie Colvin's story, which is just as vital as any conflict that she'd covered, and it does so with respect for its subject and the audience. It should not be missed.
A searing story with little emotional relief from the strain of Colvin's perfectionism, but it is also a worthy film tribute to a singular woman.
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