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Documentary  •  2025  •  97 min

The New Yorker at 100 (2025)

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The New Yorker at 100 (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
6.8

Overview

A documentary marking the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, this film offers behind-the-scenes access to the magazine's editors, writers, and archives. The Leans Progressive label follows naturally from the subject itself. The New Yorker occupies a specific cultural position in American media: it is widely associated with coastal intellectual liberalism, and a celebratory centennial portrait makes no effort to interrogate that reputation. The film champions the magazine's editorial standards and cultural relevance, framing its survival as a victory for serious journalism. There is no counterbalancing critique of its ideological homogeneity. The result is a warm institutional self-portrait, which is fine, but it anchors the film firmly on one side of the media-trust divide.

Starring Cast

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High

The film's central subject is a positive portrait of The New Yorker's century of journalism, a topic with inherent left-leaning valence in US discourse as a bastion of progressive institutional media. The narrative champions the magazine's rigorous standards and cultural role as a solution to challenges facing thoughtful reporting, with no counterbalancing critique of its ideological leanings.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The documentary showcases a mix of current New Yorker staff members of varying backgrounds in its behind-the-scenes footage while offering only passing historical context on the magazine's past demographics. Its primary focus remains the publication's editorial processes, iconic articles, and cultural role rather than any explicit examination of identity themes.

Secondary

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High

The film is a documentary focused exclusively on the history, editorial processes, and operations of The New Yorker magazine, with no depictions of family structures, marriage, parenting, or related norms.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The documentary explores the magazine's century of journalism, fiction, cartoons, and editorial processes through behind-the-scenes access and historical overview, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes depicted.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

This documentary examines the history, operations, and centennial of The New Yorker magazine through behind-the-scenes access to its newsroom and archives, with no transgender characters or themes depicted.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

This is a documentary on The New Yorker's centennial, featuring real staff, contributors, and archival footage of actual historical figures with no fictional characters or recast legacy roles.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Documentary on The New Yorker's history and centennial issue production, using real staff, archival footage, and historical figures in their documented forms with no fictional characters or recast portrayals.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.8

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.2
The Movie Database logo
6.9

Critic Ratings

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6.4
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N/A

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