The Report (2019)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Daniel Jones	Adam Driver
Dianne Feinstein	Annette Bening
Denis McDonough	Jon Hamm	½
Caroline Krass	Jennifer Morrison
Raymond Nathan	Tim Blake Nelson
John Brennan	Ted Levine
Thomas Eastman	Michael C. Hall
Bernadette	Maura Tierney
April	Sarah Goldberg
Julian	Lucas Dixon
James Elmer Mitchell	Douglas Hodge
Bruce Jessen	T. Ryder Smith
Mark Udall	Scott Shepherd

Review

This film by Scott Z. Burns is a studious, discursive account of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA's use of the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" on prisoners following the September 11 attacks in 2001. Burns tries somewhat half-heartedly to create a stylistic framework in the mould of Alan Pakula's 1970s "paranoia trilogy" (Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men) for his otherwise rather academic film, which to some degree works. When Adam Driver is led into the CIA basement from which he is to conduct his work, we feel the clammy, controlling hands of bureaucracy and the corridors of power smothering him. This a world where there are no winners, but where everyone is scared stiff of losing. The Report feels important, and it is well acted, especially by Driver and Annette Bening.