Strangely, this is effectively a sequel to 2017's "The Post" (which I watched very recently) although this movie was made in 1976. It is also facts-based, and portrays several of the same people at the Washington Post (portrayed by different actors), only a year after the events of "The Post." Our two leads are different: Robert Redford is Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman is Carl Bernstein. Woodward thinks that the break-in at Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex is strange: the five guys caught have unusual connections and a very high-priced lawyer. Woodward is a new reporter, but he has a high level government contact who's willing to feed him some information (titled "Deep Throat" by one of the editors because they didn't have any other name for him). He teams up with the more experienced Bernstein, Deep Throat pushes them to "follow the money," and we watch as they try.

It's a tense and effective movie portraying an important moment in American history. I'll still stand by "Spotlight" as the best newspaper film ever made, but this - like "The Post" - is also very good.