Official Secrets (2019)

This is one of the best films of last year that no one's seen.
Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) works for the GCHQ where she works mostly as a translator, providing information to her supervisors that could be harmful if received by the wrong person. When she receives a memo urging them to spy on convince countries that a war in Iraq would be a good idea, to help out America. 
Katharine decides that this isn't right and prints out that memo, gives it to her friend who then gives it to someone else who gives it to journalist Martin Bright (Matt Smith) who starts investigating the authenticity of the email, before printing it to mixed results.
Naturally, interrogations commence and Katharine does eventually confess as she refused to accept that the government should lie to their people. She calls out the government. Naturally, this doesn't go over well, especially since the war starts anyway. She believes that she's failed and yes, technically she did, but she was brave and her former co-workers commend her for it.
Katharine does face charges but she is recommended some great lawyers so decide to take the defense that the war was illegal, which is ultimately determined to be correct so despite Katharine spending months in fear, with constant nausea, the charges are not dropped until she finally appears in court.
So, in short, this film is great at demonstrating how America's decision affected other countries and how desperate they were to convince other countries to do what they wanted. And the performances are great, the script is tight and you truly do wonder if Katharine will get away with doing the right thing. She had courage. I hope I have the guts to do what she did. Grade: A-
-Its sort of bizarre seeing Ralph Fiennes be nice to Keira Knightley after seeing them play husband and wife in another great underrated film, 2008's The Duchess.
-In addition to this being a great thriller, it's also a great journalism film, showing how Matt Smith, a shaved-head Matthew Goode and the 'nutter' Rhys Ifans help the whistle-blower (whom they've never met) just so they report the truth.
-Britain has a different spell check than America.
-It is also weird seeing Poldark's Jack Farthing in a normal role. He's Katharine's co-worker at GCHQ.
-As this film occurs in 2003, it is almost a modern film for Keira Knightley which is refreshing to see.