I am hearing it downplays Oppies’ connection to Soviet spies.
I’m seeing conflicting reports on that. It sounds like Nolan just laid out the facts as they were revealed and let’s the viewer come to their own conclusion.
Certainly this Hollywood Reporter thinks it’s sympathetic because it shows the “horrors of the Communist Witch Hunt to tear down my hero!”
When I’m sure it does no such thing.
But then FDR himself was a communist…
Well they only had three hours to fill. /sarc.