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Robert De Niro and Eric Newman on thriller Zero Day: ‘It’s anxiety-provoking — but that’s OK’
It is something, according to the logic of American filmmaking, which had to happen. As the US faces some of its most acute political challenges for decades, call for a fictional president who will provide succour for the nation: Martin Sheen’s erudite and …