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The Parallax View
Why this pick
Its lone reporter follows a political conspiracy through chilly institutions and escalating danger, matching State of Play’s paranoid investigative momentum.
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MOVIE2009 2h 50m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its journalist-centered political crisis has the same serious Washington atmosphere, with reporting, power, and personal stakes tightly entangled.
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The Report
Why this pick
A dogged investigator confronts official obstruction in a sober, detail-rich Washington thriller that favors evidence and pressure over spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
One night, a thief fleeing through Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) in Washington, D.C., is shot by a man carrying a briefcase. A deliveryman who witnesses the incident is also shot by the killer and is left in a coma. The following morning, a young woman is killed by a Washington Metro train in what seems to be suicide. Congressman Stephen Collins is distraught to hear that the woman was Sonia Baker, a researcher on his staff. Collins, who has military experience, is leading an investigation into PointCorp, a private military company with controversial operations involving mercenary. Collins tells his college roommate and old friend Cal McAffrey, an investigative reporter, that he had been having an affair with Sonia and that she had sent him a cheerful video message on the morning of her death, which he says is inconsistent and unusual behavior for someone about to commit suicide.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Russell Crowe
Cal McAffrey
Ben Affleck
Stephen Collins
Rachel McAdams
Della Frye
Helen Mirren
Cameron Lynne
Robin Wright
Anne Collins
Jason Bateman
Dominic Foy
Jeff Daniels
Senator George Fergus
Harry Lennix
Det. Donald Bell