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Cover-Up

Directed by Mark Obenhaus · 2025

Quick Verdict

Cover-Up (2025) has a 85% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

85%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

98% Critic Score
85% Audience
86 Metascore
★★★★☆ Letterboxd 4
7.5 IMDb /10
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Runtime
2h 55m

Is Cover-Up worth watching?

Yes — Cover-Up earns a 85% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Tracing Seymour Hersh's decades of unwelcome scoops, this profile is at its best when it lets its prickly subject explain his own methods, doubling as a sharp case study in why dogged reporting matters.

Celluloid Critics Consensus

Critics (98%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (85%).

What is Cover-Up about?

Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, Cover-Up is both a...

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