You’d be hard-pressed to find a film reviewer at a newspaper who doesn’t revere All the President’s Men, the 1976 adaptation of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book based on their landmark reporting of the Watergate scandal. This is steeped in journalistic detail and mindful of the rigors of the profession – a salute, in effect, to anyone who reports for a living. The ingeniousness of screenwriter William Goldman and director Alan J. Pakula’s film is that it’s framed as a detective mystery, with a pair of young reporters (Robert Redford plays Woodward, while Dustin Hoffman is Bernstein) as the cops and Nixon and his cronies as the literal robbers.
