The New Yorker at 100

The documentary goes into the newsroom of The New Yorker in the magazine's hundredth year. The camera attends the meetings at the office and visits the homes and haunts of its writers; how a piece is chosen, how it is cut and what the fact checking department does are all shown. Marshall Curry directs. Julianne Moore narrates. It runs ninety seven minutes. It premiered at the Telluride film festival on 30 August 2025 and went out on Netflix on 5 December. Judd Apatow is among the executive producers. Its most concrete section is the checking. The magazine is known for verifying every sentence separately, and the film shows the people who do it. The narrative also goes through the magazine's past: the Hiroshima issue, Hannah Arendt's pieces on Eichmann and the tradition of the cartoon are given as separate sections. The real matter behind it is the present. The declining trust in long form, fact based journalism and the economic condition of the press stand throughout the narrative. Its limit is the absence of distance. It looks as though it was made together with the magazine; there is almost no criticism and the magazine's own contested decisions are not addressed. Who it is for: anyone interested in the history of journalism and the publishing world. Who it is not for: there is no critical view, the tone is celebratory, and there are too many names for anyone who does not know the magazine.