‘Allen v. Farrow’: A Growing Genre of #MeToo Documentaries Makes a Final Plea to Skeptics

In the third installment of “Allen v.

Farrow,” former New York Times reporter Peter Marks — who covered the 1992 custody trial between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow — admits with some mixed emotions that he hasn’t watched another Woody Allen movie since.“I didn’t buy it […] either,” Marks says somewhat sheepishly.

“As a reporter it’s hard to admit this, in a way.

I absolutely worshipped Woody Allen before this trial and I still, well the proof is I could never watch a Woody Allen film again after this.

It still hurts, it still wrenches me to say that, it’s still not easy to say that.”Now the chief theater critic of the Washington Post, Marks speaks for all culture connoisseurs in that moment.

For years, cinephiles and New York aesthetes turned a blind eye to the horrific allegations of childhood sexual abuse made against Allen by Dylan Farrow,

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