Based on the 2003 BBC miniseries, this thriller about conspiracy, murder, and politics also considers the current state of journalism, in which dogged, time-consuming work is being pushed aside in a world of 24-hour cable news, Twitter, and Internet blogs. It is also, not surprisingly and quite refreshingly, an old-fashioned kind of thriller—solid, patient, and even thoughtful—fueling its mystery with our constant sense of unease about the intersections between the public and the private and those who benefit from escalating war. It doesn’t have anything particularly profound to say, but its solid virtues make its depictions of dark dealings along the Potomac feel all too possible. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)