‘The Front Runner’ Review: How Journalism Became the Monster We Needed | TIFF 2018

Do you remember when a major politician could cheat on his wife and no one would cover it because political journalists felt it wasn’t their business? I don’t, and that’s probably because the Gary Hart scandal happened when I was four. Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner plunges into the question about whether the private lives of public servants should be made public, and it does a solid job of making the case that while our media may have become more tawdry, it also finally held men accountable for sleazy behavior. Although the movie tries to offer …

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