A sharp and engaging retrospective on the journalism of Sy Hersh, and it left me wishing for a full docuseries that could really dig into the breadth of his investigative career. Even so, this stands as a strong reminder that the work itself is the story. That piece by…

Kevflix And Chill

Sort of like that De Palma doc Noah Baumbach did a few years back where he just let the man sit in front of a camera and walk you through his career, only if instead of being about the guy who directed Body Double and Carlito's Way it was about the one who broke the My Lai…

Josh Lewis

this is what the word mensch is for

Ella Kemp

this is totally fine as political/historical documentary. glad it wasn't placed into the competition though, cause it wouldn't have any place there. not a given since Poitras fleeced the festival circuit 3 years ago.

shookone

THE EMOTIONAL DISSONANCE of the New Yorker reader in 2004: feeling joy over a boffo cartoon panel and, on the next page, revulsion at a torture photo in a Seymour Hersh piece. This giant in the pantheon of investigative journalists finally gets the full bio treatment, warts…

Carl Russo

COVER-UP highlights the American government’s deliberate efforts to conceal its most heinous war crimes during the Vietnam and Iraq wars, as revealed through the investigative work of Award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s documentary…

Matt Neglia

Poitras is really one of our greats. Got see this with her and hersh  doing a q&a in person .  I got to meet her, when we were apart of a group blocking the Manhattan bridge in what was a city wide blocking of every bridge and tunnel to shut down the city for Gaza in…

rowan_blanchard

i forget how much editing is writing until i watch a documentary and i remember that yes, this is the story. the medium is the message, and all that. there is nothing particularly flashy about the edit, just steady competence and dogged determination to communicate the…

emma

They don’t make ‘em like Sy Hersh anymore and we need an army of him now. Tremendous in that the subject and his work is; Poitras and Obenhaus smartly stay out of the way as he walks us through the process of his biggest stories, aside from some probing questions about…

Katie Walsh