... it's interesting to see the story from the viewpoint of a female journalist--one whose capabilities as a mother, a wife and a law-abiding citizen are constantly questioned...

A finely-crafted film of people and ideas, of the sort more common before the movie mainstream became a sausage factory.

Every once in a while, for reasons as random as a Hollywood executive's taste or an economic meltdown, a perfectly decent movie slips through the cracks, never receives a theatrical release and is relegated to the purgatory called straight-to-DVD.

The moral and patriotic complexity of [Lurie's] subject lingers long after the end credits.