A Private War
There is a tragic aspect we live through that tragic story that seems quite different as it speaks of one of the most famous war correspondents of our time. She is a woman called Mary Colvin, who is a very frightened and rebellious spirit and may have lived through these strange feelings. It is the woman who has decided to be given a real aspect around the front lines of conflicts around the world to give voice to the blind who fought hard.
17 May 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
25 August 1967, Bristol, England, UK
January 28, 1980 in Massachusetts, USA
27 February 1976, Nigeria
21 December 1969, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK
15 May 1966, Newcastle, England, UK
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 16, 2018
It's a powerful but clear-eyed acknowledgment of the importance of journalism.
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.
February 19, 2019
The film is an inspiring tribute to a significant figure in journalism.
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 13, 2019
I admired A Private War for its tough, forthright, pro-journalist attitude.
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 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
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.
November 14, 2018
An intelligent and sophisticated biopic with a tour-de-force performance from Pike.
February 19, 2019
Heineman is far better off letting Pike's unforced charisma and sense of purpose carry the day.
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.
