A Private War
In a story that looks more exciting and fun to live through these powerful war events that are reported by one of the most famous war correspondents of our time, Mary Colvin. This war story tells about Mary, a woman who is a totally frightened and rebellious spirit, driven to the front lines of conflicts all over the world and may well recount the march of the blind through those bloody wars.
21 December 1969, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK
15 September 1993, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, England, UK
1978, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
April 9, 1964 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
2 August 1971, Santa Barbara, California, USA
30 December 1986, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, UK
15 May 1966, Newcastle, England, UK
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
February 19, 2019
The film is an inspiring tribute to a significant figure in journalism.February 19, 2019
Heineman is far better off letting Pike's unforced charisma and sense of purpose carry the day.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.February 21, 2019
Pike certainly looks and acts the part, even if the depiction of the journalist's trade tends towards the cliched.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.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.November 14, 2018
An intelligent and sophisticated biopic with a tour-de-force performance from Pike.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 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.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 13, 2019
I admired A Private War for its tough, forthright, pro-journalist attitude.