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Witness to the Persecution

It’s disconcerting to be appalled and even slightly nauseated by a masterpiece. But Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary, and so it’s disconcerting largely because of its subject matter—it shocks us with the truth. Yet if Capturing the Friedmans were less shapely and less of a masterpiece, I’d find it less troubling. Both […]