September 5 (2024)
Directed by Tim Fehlbaum
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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It’s also the perfect companion piece to Steven Spielberg’s controversial “Munich,” which depicted the Israeli response to the Olympic massacre…
You could call it a cousin to “Munich” and “One Day in September,”…
…it’s hard not to miss the messy agony of Steven Spielberg’s Munich…
…including Steven Spielberg’s highly regarded 2005 thriller “Munich.”
Steven Spielberg’s 2005 “Munich,” his drama starring Eric Bana as the German-Jewish Mossad agent assigned to lead the charge to take down the terrorists, plunged into the visceral and moral bloodshed on the ground.
…a territory deftly explored by Steven Spielberg in Munich (2005)…
It tries to emulate better fictional newsroom works like Steven Spielberg's The Post, Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, and Tom McCarthy's Spotlight…
The Spielberg film this most resembles is “The Post,” in its flurry of trying to act responsibly amid the incredible pressures of a breaking-news environment.
As directed by Swiss filmmaker Tim Felhbaum, who cowrote the screenplay with Munich-born screenwriter Moritz Bender, “September 5” is not a sprawling epic about mission creep and moral decay in the vein of Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” but a dialogue-driven journalism thriller in the tradition of “All the President’s Men,” “The China Syndrome,” “Spotlight” or “The Post,” though with an action movie’s pacing.
It tries to emulate better fictional newsroom works like Steven Spielberg's The Post, Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, and Tom McCarthy's Spotlight…
Bradly, Drew, and Nate discuss films covering a history of life changing events from Spotlight to Morning Glory…
Like most movies set within a newsroom context (from Network to Spotlight), the atmosphere is already nerve-racking/high-energy enough…
September 5, along with films like Civil War, She Said, and Spotlight, is a worthy journalism procedural.
…but also to journalism-centric films like “Spotlight,” “She Said” and the documentary “Collective”…
As far as newsroom dramas go, September 5 holds its own with Broadcast News and Spotlight .
One can see parallels to Sidney Lumet’s Network or Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler in its exploration of questionable journalistic ethics.
Like most movies set within a newsroom context (from Network to Spotlight), the atmosphere is already nerve-racking/high-energy enough…
If this movie had arrived before “Network” and all the media cynicism that’s since come to pass, it would have dropped jaws, too…
…easily the equal of Alex Garland’s 2024 Civil War (2024)…
Like Alex Garland’s “Civil War” (2024) without the spectacle, there is limited discussion of the actual conflict…
September 5, along with films like Civil War, She Said, and Spotlight, is a worthy journalism procedural.
Back in the spring, Alex Garland’s wildly divisive Civil War was defended in some corners as actually being a sly indictment of the very journalists it textually valorized; an argument which feels far more appropriate for the outwardly jaundiced September 5.
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It tries to emulate better fictional newsroom works like Steven Spielberg's The Post, Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, and Tom McCarthy's Spotlight…
…there’s a whiff of Aaron Sorkin like self-aggrandizement, reminiscent of The Newsroom, where journalists seem to take undue credit for historical events.
The result is somewhere between The Newsroom and Good Night, and Good Luck…
…or Maria Schrader’s She Said (2022)…
September 5, along with films like Civil War, She Said, and Spotlight, is a worthy journalism procedural.
…but also to journalism-centric films like “Spotlight,” “She Said” and the documentary “Collective”…
This historical thriller is the equivalent of a dramatic complement to “Saturday Night” (2024)…
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Paul Greengrass
Critics invoke Greengrass by name, and compare September 5 to 1 of Greengrass’s films.
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On Greengrass, rather than any one film
The material is brought to life in an energetic way akin to the style of Paul Greengrass – but with less shaky camerawork.
The chaos of the studio control room is evocative of the powerful air traffic control scenes from Paul Greengrass’ United 93 (2006), which chronicled the morning of the September 11th attacks with frenetic realism.
Imagine United 93 (2006) taking place completely in the air traffic control room…
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September 5 may aim to represent the uncomfortable ethics of media, but this is no Ace in the Hole.
…with Alan J. Pakula’s classic “All The President’s Men” often heralded as the best example…