Like “All the President’s Men” (1976) and “Spotlight” (2015), Maria Schrader’s investigative journalism procedural “She Said” is a film that clearly understands the minutiae and mechanics of reporting and has great respect for the heroic truth-seekers who grind it out for weeks or even months in the name of shining a light on an earth-shattering scandal and bringing to justice those who deserve it.
From the quietly intense bustle of the New York Times newsroom to the editor/reporter conferences to the scenes of reporters working the phones and wearing out the shoe leather getting background information and trying to persuade sources to go on the record, “She Said” gets it right while telling the story of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. They’re the Times reporters whose bombshell piece (along with Ronan Farrow’s work for the New Yorker) was largely responsible for the downfall of the despicable Harvey Weinstein, who has been sentenced to 23 years on sex crime convictions and is being tried on additional charges in Los Angeles.
