Never one to limit himself to blockbusters, Adam Driver again shows off his impressive range with Amazon’s harrowing thriller “The Report,” a withering look at real crimes the United States government committed in the wake of 9/11. The case at the film’s center shows a nation on edge in a frightened, paranoid world, and from the looks of this fantastic second trailer, the film seems to set an appropriate mood.
Driver portrays Daniel J. Jones, who worked with the Senate Intelligence Committee to help expose the CIA and hold the agency accountable for torturing 9/11 suspects. The film pulls from Jones’s 6,700-page report, which detailed the CIA’s inhumane practices and discovered decades of horrifying “interrogation techniques.” In December 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) released roughly 500 pages of the report. Nothing more has been released.
“The Report” scrutinizes and criticizes the methods we used to extract information from 9/11 plotters, drawing narrative might from both its heavy-hitting cast and its firm grounding in actual events. It stars Driver, Annette Bening, Michael C. Hall, Ted Levine, Jon Hamm, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll, and Maura Tierney. “The Informant!” and “Contagion” screenwriter Scott Z. Burns has written and directed the film.
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Driver has had a busy year; in addition to heading “The Report,” he starred in Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die” and is also set to appear in “Marriage Story” and in December’s saga-capping “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” Next year, he will star in the Leos Carax-directed musical “Annette.”
“The Report” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year but won’t hit theaters until November 15. It lands on Amazon Prime Video on November 29.