“The New Yorker at 100” is a nimble and infectious documentary, one that brings off a trick more challenging than it looks. (In that way, it’s a lot like the magazine.) In just 96 minutes, the film, directed by Marshall Curry and narrated by Julianne Moore, lays out the fabled history of The New Yorker. It colors in the magazine’s larger cultural significance. It gives us a close-up, between-the-lines portrait of how The New Yorker gets put together each week, presenting us with the creation of its 100th anniversary issue (which came out this past February) as a template for what happens on a more regular basis.
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