‘The Report’ is a thriller about how we entered the post-truth era
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Scott Z. Burns, director of ‘The Report,’ details the CIA’s torture program after 9/11—and it’s the kind of bipartisan analysis we need now more than ever.
In his directorial debut, Scott Z. Burns—the screenwriter of The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!, and Contagion—managed to condense a 6,700-page government report into a geopolitical thriller that’s actually thrilling. And, equally important, it’s the kind of honest analysis of governmental accountability that’s missing in our current post-truth era of “alternative facts.”