‘Under the Wire’ Review: Portrait of a War Reporter – The New York Times

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‘Under the Wire’ Review: Portrait of a War Reporter

The emotional testimony of the war photographer Paul Conroy dominates this heated and harrowing account of Marie Colvin’s last weeks.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/movies/under-the-wire-review-marie-colvin.html

Piggybacking on the recent release of the based-on-real-life drama “A Private War,” “Under the Wire” — sewn together from on-the-spot footage and interviews with colleagues — drops us into conflict zones with disorienting immediacy. Our primary guide is Paul Conroy, the plain-spoken British photographer who partnered with Colvin and was severely injured in the 2012 rocket attack in Syria that killed her and another reporter outright.

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