While the rest of the known universe …
flocks to see the final adventures of a boy-wizard, some among us may be headed in an entirely different direction.

Writing in Salon today, Andrew O’Hehir says documentarian Errol Morris’ new movie, “Tabloid” hits theaters at a “curiously opportune moment.”

But even with the media universe focused on the phone hacking scandal that’s consuming media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News International empire, O’Hehir says it would be a mistake to call “Tabloid” an indictment of a certain style of journalism.

“This story about Joyce McKinney, a one-time beauty queen who found herself not once but twice at the center of outrageous, tabloid-friendly news stories, is another of Morris’ alternately hilarious and disturbing inquiries into the slippery nature of truth,” he writes.

A little more:

“Morris has frequently, and accurately, been described as a filmmaker who is fascinated with epistemology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and limits of human knowledge. He’s also sometimes been called a postmodernist who denies or elides the distinction between truth and fiction, and that’s a charge he has always forcefully rejected.”

Read the full story here.