Kenneth Turan reflects on 'The Post': How a film critic watches movies about experiences he lived through

Film critics do not, by any reasonable standard, lead glamorous lives. Most of our time alternates between sitting in dark rooms watching movies and sitting in lighter rooms writing about them. Not the stuff of great drama, not even close.

But an accident of fate has meant that not one but two major Hollywood productions with big stars attached have been made about a chunk of my professional life - the nearly decade I spent working as a reporter at the Washington Post from 1969 to 1978.

First came 1976's Watergate-themed "All the President's Men," directed by Alan Pakula with Robert Redford as Bob Woodward, Dustin Hoffman as my pal Carl Bernstein