‘Cold Copy’ Review: A Journalism Drama That Can’t Find Its Own Story
thewrap.comAmbition intrigues us. Since ancient Greek and Roman times we have watched eagerly as men have been ensnared—and later ruined—by it.
People are now perhaps closer to ambition than ever before in the age of capitalism’s do-or-die pact with humanity, but that also means we’re arguably more intimately familiar with the subsequent downfall.
In Roxane Helberg’s directorial debut “Cold Copy,” we’re introduced to that undoing through the lens of hard-hitting journalism, a field where ambition is practically mounted on every desk name-plate.
The film’s take on the tensions that lie in launching a career in journalism and doing whatever you can to keep it is a worthy one, if only off the back of the film’s strong leads, Bel Powley and Tracee Ellis Ross.“Cold Copy” follows Powley’s Mia, a journalism student who will do whatever it takes to curry the favor of her high-profile and cutthroat professor, Diane (Ross), a beloved prime-time reporter with a sterling reputation.
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