'Cover-Up' Review: Seymour Hersh Documentary Makes the Journalist Both the Subject and the Source

Over a static shot of a peculiar address comes a voice we know oh so well. "The son of a bitch is a son of a bitch," growls Richard Milhous Nixon. "But he's usually right, isn't he?" These filmmakers must have pinched themselves when they dug up that old soundbite, because what else is there to say? Where else could such unlikely perspectives align than in a backhanded tribute to journalist Seymour Hersh, bringing together the 37th President of the United States – dead since 1994 – and directors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, very much alive and in Venice to premiere their . . .