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Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2013)

Unquestionably Alan J. Pakula's best film, All the President's Men is as good as any American film of the 70s and one of the few significant political films that Hollywood has ever produced. Though the film is based on well-known events, it compels as a low key thriller and thrills as study of journalism in the dogged pursuit of the truth. Hoffman, Redford, Jason Robards and Jane Alexander perform with admirable modesty and total believability. The film is soundly paced and intelligently written, and Pakula creates a persuasive atmosphere of uncertainty while maintaining a documentary-like realism. Like Scorceses's Goodfellas and Polanski's The Pianist, All the President's Men was robbed of the Oscar for Best Picture.