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    Review: 'A Private War' is as unflinching as its subject, reporter Marie Colvin

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Nov 05, 2018 3 minutes

    War correspondent Marie Colvin fought not one but numerous personal battles in her violently abbreviated life, and director Matthew Heineman and star Rosamund Pike have joined forces to persuasively handle them all in the gripping, insightful "A Private War."

    Colvin was the two-time winner of the British Foreign Journalist of the Year Award and something of a celebrity among her peers in the time before she was killed in Syria in 2012, and though some of her struggles can be surmised, they are still brutally involving.

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