“The Post” (*** out of four) was an absorbing true story about a cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents regarding the Vietnam War and how the first female news publisher (Meryl Streep) and a hard-nosed and determined editor (Tom Hanks) at the Washington Post sought to expose the truth, in spite of the consequences with the government and other media. An interesting old-fashioned story about the determination of journalism and truth is well-acted and well-detailed but offset by a certain remoteness which prevents it from excelling. A solid effort from director Steven Spielberg but this cannot match the intensity or sweep of the recent newspaper-journalism drama “Spotlight.”