One of the great political thrillers...

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 1999)

From its opening shots of a typewriter slamming out the date to the closing Washington Post ticker feeding the epilogue, "All the Presidents Men" is a superbly directed and acted retelling of Woodward and Bernstein's account of the Watergate breakin and cover-up. Redford and director Pakula cast the film with some of the best actors around (particularly Robards, Warden, Balsam and Jane Alexander in a small role). Easier to follow than Pakula's "Parallex View" and as engaging as "the Manchurian Candidate", "All the President's Men" is political filmmaking at its best.