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Economic Times
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
Words of War: When will the film release in theatres? See release date, storyline, cast and creative team
Storyline Cast and Creative Team Live Events Release Date FAQs (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel The upcoming film Words of War tells the story of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . She reported on sensitive topics and paid a high price. The film will open in theaters across the United States on May 2, film is based on the real life of Anna Politkovskaya. She was known for reporting on conflicts and human rights issues in Russia. She faced several threats throughout her career. Despite danger, she continued reporting. She eventually lost her life for her work. Maxine Peake , Jason Isaacs and Ciarán Hinds play lead roles in the film. They are featured in a newly released poster with a red background. Other cast members include Ian Hart, Ellie Bamber, Harry Lawtey, Sophie Simnett and Ben Strong directed the movie. Eric Poppen wrote the script. Sean Penn is one of the executive producers. He shared that the film aims to highlight the value of honest journalism. He said it is both a tribute and a reflection on the power of story shows Anna Politkovskaya's dedication to free press. She believed in telling the truth, no matter the risks. The film reminds audiences of the challenges journalists face worldwide. It presents the cost of speaking out against authority and standing by the of War will premiere in US theaters on May 2, 2025. This date coincides with the United Nations' World Press Freedom Day . Release dates for other countries and streaming platforms will be announced Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist who exposed corruption and war crimes. She died for reporting film opens in US theaters on May 2, 2025. Global and streaming releases are pending.
Time of India
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Words of War: When will the film release in theatres? See release date, storyline, cast and creative team
The upcoming film Words of War tells the story of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . She reported on sensitive topics and paid a high price. The film will open in theaters across the United States on May 2, 2025. #Pahalgam Terrorist Attack Nuclear Power! How India and Pakistan's arsenals stack up Does America have a plan to capture Pakistan's nuclear weapons? Airspace blockade: India plots a flight path to skip Pakistan Storyline The film is based on the real life of Anna Politkovskaya. She was known for reporting on conflicts and human rights issues in Russia. She faced several threats throughout her career. Despite danger, she continued reporting. She eventually lost her life for her work. Also Read: Raising Kanan Season 4 Episode 8: Why was the episode's release delayed? Check out new release date, time, what to expect and where to watch 5 5 Next Stay Playback speed 1x Normal Back 0.25x 0.5x 1x Normal 1.5x 2x 5 5 / Skip Ads by by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Click here for more information Undo Cast and Creative Team Maxine Peake , Jason Isaacs and Ciarán Hinds play lead roles in the film. They are featured in a newly released poster with a red background. Other cast members include Ian Hart, Ellie Bamber, Harry Lawtey, Sophie Simnett and Ben Miles. James Strong directed the movie. Eric Poppen wrote the script. Sean Penn is one of the executive producers. He shared that the film aims to highlight the value of honest journalism. He said it is both a tribute and a reflection on the power of truth. Live Events The story shows Anna Politkovskaya's dedication to free press. She believed in telling the truth, no matter the risks. The film reminds audiences of the challenges journalists face worldwide. It presents the cost of speaking out against authority and standing by the facts. Release Date Words of War will premiere in US theaters on May 2, 2025. This date coincides with the United Nations' World Press Freedom Day . Release dates for other countries and streaming platforms will be announced later. FAQs Who is Anna Politkovskaya and why is she important? Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist who exposed corruption and war crimes. She died for reporting truthfully. When will Words of War be available to watch? The film opens in US theaters on May 2, 2025. Global and streaming releases are pending.
CNN
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
‘Words of War' profiles a journalist killed for speaking truth to power
Maxine Peake stars as the late journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was an independent voice for the victims of Putin's Russia. David Daniel looks at the film, which opens May 2, one day before UN World Press Freedom Day on May 3.
CNN
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
‘Words of War' profiles a journalist killed for speaking truth to power
Maxine Peake stars as the late journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was an independent voice for the victims of Putin's Russia. David Daniel looks at the film, which opens May 2, one day before UN World Press Freedom Day on May 3.
Telegraph
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Doubt: A wintry Maxine Peake compels in this twisting parable about unsubstantiated accusations
'Doubt' and 'Maxine Peake' are not words I'd normally put together – the actress is such a strict socialist she once described Labour voters who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as 'Tory as far as I'm concerned'. But perhaps there's something self-reflective at play in her choice of project at Bath. John Patrick Shanley's oft-revived Tony-winning 2004 play proffers neat testament to the perils of self-certainty. Drawing on the author's own experience, it's set in 1964 in a Catholic church school in the Bronx, a fortress against the era's liberation presided over by nuns whose vigilance about sinfulness is a repressive constant. In Lindsay Posner's compact, deft revival, Peake takes the leading role (played in the 2008 film by Meryl Streep) of Sister Aloysius, the principal whose beady eye misses nothing but whose focus is so exacting it permits no grey areas, and thus is apt to overlook the messy complexity of human behaviour. The actress is well-suited to the icy rigour of the character, her face glaring out from under a mourning-black bonnet, every inch of her at once burning with zeal and shiver-making winter made flesh. Her office almost an interrogation cell, she quizzes first a recent addition to the 'Sisters of Charity' order, an altogether too sunnily disposed teacher called Sister James (a sweetly demure Holly Godliman), taking her to task for her lapses of forgiving liberalism. The main object of her sedentary admonishments and gradually declared suspicions, though, is lonely Father Flynn whose sermon on the value of doubt amid the flux of faith we've heard at the start. What we haven't been shown, though, are the interactions between Flynn and a troubled black altar boy that have had Aloysius quivering with alarm. The piece is composed with a twisting mixture of tightening noose and saving slack – just who are we really to believe? Ben Daniels' vigorously animated Flynn is rattled by insinuations that turn into accusations; is he affirming his innocence or confirming his guilt? For all her hermetic nature might his tormentor have the measure of a predator, even if only a potential one? We're in a world rather reminiscent of The Crucible – in which moral hysteria collides with personal failings, everything also bound up with severe social constraints. The neatness, though, is as much a curse as a blessing; we mainly wait, like meek pupils, for the next partial revelation. Though matters boil bitterly to a head, our emotional investment remains quite limited; who to root for, who to feel moved by? Yes, the play catches the crushing prejudices of the era, and speaks, too, to the cancel-culture of today. Yet it doesn't feel wholly like a modern classic. The plot, as such, thickens with the arrival of the boy's mother (Rachel John, a picture of dignity and contained hurt) – ushering in a valuable note of reproving compromise and compassion. But at the abrupt end of 90 minutes, there's a faint tang of thin gruel.
