Friday, December 16, 2011
Film Best of 2011, number 5: Tabloid
Posted by J.R. Jones on 12.16.11 at 03:30 PM
Tabloid is hardly the last word on the story: in fact McKinney has disputed its portrayal of her and recently filed suit against Morris, saying she was tricked into participating in the film. For a perceptive and well-argued indictment of the movie, check out Katherine Zwick's comment on my original review, which ran in July. Zwick certainly makes me reconsider how much Morris might have distorted what actually happened, but I don't think that really discredits Tabloid as a documentary or a work of art. All it means is that, like everyone else involved in the movie, Morris is both empowered and limited by his own vantage point.
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