With Marshall Curry ‘s The New Yorker at 100 , a magazine famous for its erudition and curation receives a polished, amusing and generally superficial Reader’s Digest summary of a documentary.

Very little is wrong with the 96-minute version of The New Yorker ‘s history that Curry ( Street Fight ) is recounting (premiering at Telluride ahead of an eventual Netflix launch) — other than the completely unavoidable awareness of all the pieces of the story that aren’t being told with desirable depth, or told at all.

The New Yorker at 100 The Bottom Line Should have been a six-hour docuseries. Venue: Telluride Film Festival

Distributor: Netflix

Director: Marshall Curry

1 hour 36 minutes

When Tina Brown took over the magazine in 1992 as only its fourth editor-in-chief,

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