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Celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin is a woman who is as comfortable downing martinis with high society's elite as she is brazenly staring down warlords and fleeing from gunfire. Driven by an enduring desire to bear witness and give voice to the voiceless, Colvin charges into danger, constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado.

R (Disturbing Violent Images|Brief Sexuality/Nudity|Language Throughout)

Biography,

Drama,

War

Basil Iwanyk ,

Marissa McMahon ,

Matthew George ,

Matthew Heineman ,

Charlize Theron

Rosamund Pike

Marie Colvin

Jamie Dornan

Paul Conroy

Tom Hollander

Sean Ryan

Stanley Tucci

Tony Shaw

Jérémie Laheurte

Remi Ochlik

Hilton McRae

Adam Watkins

Fady Elsayed

Mourad

Raad Rawi

Gaddafi

Matthew Heineman

Director

Arash Amel

Screenwriter

Basil Iwanyk

Producer

Marissa McMahon

Producer

Matthew George

Producer

Matthew Heineman

Producer

Charlize Theron

Producer

Erica Lee

Executive Producer

Jonathan Fuhrman

Executive Producer

Ashley Schlaifer

Executive Producer

Jeffrey Sobrato

Executive Producer

Joe Gelchion

Executive Producer

Beth Kono

Executive Producer

A.J. Dix

Executive Producer

David Dinerstein

Executive Producer

Jason Resnick

Executive Producer

William Sadleir

Executive Producer

Wayne Marc Godfrey

Executive Producer

Robert Jones

Executive Producer

Jeff Rice

Executive Producer

All Critics (147)
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Top Critics (48)
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Fresh (129)
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Rotten (18)

A Private War is gritty and raw character drama about Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin. The film follows the last ten years of Colvin's life reporting on conflicts in Sri Lonka, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, along with her struggles with PTSD and substance abuse. Rosamund Pike gives an incredible performance, really transforming herself into her character. However, the script is rather weak and doesn't do a particularly good job at getting at what drove her to do the work she did, or chose the places she did, or what made her voice unique from others. Yet while it has some weaknesses, A Private War is a powerful and provocative film about the life of a war correspondent.

Dann M

Super Reviewer

Pike is great, but the movie never coalesces around a coherent idea of who Colvin really was outside of vague ponderings about her wanting to do good and something about trauma. One feels that the real Colvin deserved something better.

Alec B

Super Reviewer

A PRIVATE WAR (3 1/2 Stars)

It's nice to see a fierce woman at the center of the familiar journalist in a war zone story, and Rosamund Pike's unsparingly aggressive performance as Marie Colvin, a BBC correspondent who lost an eye and wore a patch, makes her a "Fifth Estate Pirate" for the ages. This true portrayal of a woman whose outrage led her into deadly conflicts may seem like a lot of typing at computer screens, smoking, and fighting with editors to let her get into increasingly dangerous situations, but this urgently directed film wants to shake us out of our selfie-culture complacency and ask ourselves if we would be anywhere as ballsy and brave as Marie. Jamie Dornan surprises with an earthy, edgy performance as her photographer, reminding us that he has more than 50 shade
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