Review - The New Yorker at 100 doc on Netflix - "Not great - not enough scenes with Richard Brody."

(3/5 stars or 8/10 stars - I liked the doc, but...)

Not great - not enough scenes with Richard Brody. Brody is in the doc for maybe 5-7 mins or so. It should be like 30 mins+ of Brody - an enormously important film critic - the sole reason for some people I know who shall remain nameless buying The New Yorker. Other than that, pretty good doc - pretty much a light celebration of the magazine. There's no major narrative, no problems being solved - so, if you are a fan of the mag, you might dig it. While the mag may know how to write in interesting ways about some subjects, they do not know how to make a good movie about themselves (not sure how the doc came about - maybe they made it happen for the 100th year celebration? who knows). Perhaps the doc makers should have consulted Richard Brody about what would make for a compelling doc about the mag. Much of the world's future is based on Brody's film criticism - so, an important historical figure - should be at the center of the doc.