Before Watergate, the story that made the once-sleepy, provincial Washington Post’s political reputation was the publishing of “The Pentagon Papers.”

Steven Spielberg has rounded up Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, and vast collection of top flight character actors (Hey now, Bob Oedenkirk!), naturally including Bruce Greenwood (Can’t do a political movie without our favorite Kennedy look-alike) to tell this dramatic, timely story about a newspaper that now has “Democracy dies in Darkness” as its motto.

Christmas.