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A Private War
It may be quite different when we speak of one of the most famous war correspondents of our time. It is the personality that has raised more signs of understanding for all, Mary Colvin, that is a spirit that is completely scared and rebellious and may be exposed to a tragic aspect of her life. It speaks of those front lines of conflicts around the world about the blind who still suffer.
1978, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
21 December 1969, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
15 September 1993, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, England, UK
April 9, 1964 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
February 21, 2019
Pike certainly looks and acts the part, even if the depiction of the journalist's trade tends towards the cliched.
February 19, 2019
The film is an inspiring tribute to a significant figure in journalism.
November 14, 2018
An intelligent and sophisticated biopic with a tour-de-force performance from Pike.
February 19, 2019
Matthew Heineman is a documentary filmmaker and his A Private War is a sturdy chronicle of Colvin's fearless life of speaking truth to power, only to be admired because of the unthinkable risks she herself took in order to do so.
March 01, 2019
It's clear Marie Colvin deserves a biopic, but this first dramatic feature by documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman feels too by-the-numbers to do her justice.
February 19, 2019
Heineman is far better off letting Pike's unforced charisma and sense of purpose carry the day.
November 16, 2018
It's a powerful but clear-eyed acknowledgment of the importance of journalism.
February 20, 2019
Poor, gifted Rosamund Pike is persuaded to play the American-born Sunday Times journo at full throttle, when half-throttle would be a nice occasional variant.
November 12, 2018
Despite the undeniably extraordinary feats that Colvin achieved in life and on the edge of death, A Private War is a hagiography that reduces a complicated woman down to trauma, booze, and typing.
November 16, 2018
While it occasionally pulls away from Colvin to let the nightmarish inhumanity of war provide power and feeling, it all too often relies on juiced-up expressions of humanist heroism.
February 13, 2019
I admired A Private War for its tough, forthright, pro-journalist attitude.
November 15, 2018
"A Private War" doesn't ask you to understand the politics of war, only the human side. And it shows the toll war takes on people's souls, most of which it never gives back.