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- [New] | Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
- Excerpt: As Hersh notes in Cover-Up, co-directed by Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, “We’re a culture of enormous violence. You can’t have a country that does it and looks the other way.” In Hersh’s view, the press is not subject to censorship so much as self-censorship; they’re all too aware that things are being covered up, but they don’t bother to dig any deeper, too afraid of pissing off the powers that be.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Hersh’s work ultimately speaks for itself and he has no desire to overshadow its potency with hindsight—a fact that doesn’t necessarily help the film’s ambition.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: With access to around 7,000 assets, “Cover-up” is a masterful record of Seymour Hersh’s life’s work and a valuable contribution to the history of America. We want to think we’re the good guys, but Hersh consistently tips the scale in another direction. His goal is truth, and his life mode is integrity.
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