Sneakin’ Around

Maria Schrader’s film She Said opened last month and bombed so badly it was declared the definitive end of the #MeToo movie just three days after it opened. Genre trends in popular cinema can last longer than five years, and Harvey Weinstein was only exposed in October 2017. Then again, All the President’s Men came out just two years after Richard Nixon resigned and Woodward and Bernstein became—or tried—rock stars. That movie was also the capstone to Alan J. Pakula’s “paranoia trilogy,” preceded by The Parallax View and Klute. The middle one is the masterpiece, but All the President’s Men is more famous than the man who made it (a man who died under peculiar and violent circumstances in 1998, a traffic accident ripped out of his movies).