Movie Weekend

[bcholmes]

Nothing But The Truth was quite a bit better than I was expecting it to be. I was expecting some Judith Miller hagiography, which it isn't (although the Judith Miller stand-in is pretty saintly). My big complaint is that I think it fails to be sufficiently critical of the way the media picks and chooses which stories it runs with (and how). Alan Alda makes an appeal for the importance of the free press to keep government power in check and, well, I don't think that's the role the press wants to play at the moment.

Also, it passes the Bechdel test.