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I rather liked The Conspirator. It was presented in a rather staid, old-school film style - but I found that perfectly appropriate to an historical piece about the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination. It's a bit of history I was personally ignorant of, and the two lead performances were excellent - so I really enjoyed it.
Also, having experienced the eerie movie-release timing of The China Syndrome to the Three Mile Island events several decades ago, I had a strange sense of deja-vu - since just this week it was announced that plans had been scuttled to hold civil trials for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and 4 other 9/11 plotters, and instead subject them to "military tribunals."
Redford made no bones about comparing the injustice of the assassination plotters' trial to current events - but unless he was making up American history out of whole cloth, I found the comparisons pretty apt - and the timing could not have been much better.
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