Sorry/Not Sorry

It’s about how men like Louis get away with this kind of behavior—about how difficult it is for victims to respond “correctly” in the moment of the abuse and how unrewarding, if not ruinous, it is to come forward in their aftermath.

If you want proof that some in Hollywood and the pop culture mainstream are itching to forget the lessons of the #MeToo movement, look no further than the excellent documentary Sorry/Not Sorry.

Sorry/Not Sorry skates over much of this recent history without really analyzing it.

A meticulously sharp, responsible, and absorbing movie -- an incisive study, really, of the sweep-it-under-the-rug culture that was firmly in place before the #MeToo revolution knocked some of its foundations askew.

Although the movie never convincingly answers the unspoken question that dogs many New York Times-produced long-form videos—"Is this topic better suited to a newspaper article, or perhaps a podcast?"—it is handsomely assembled.

Sorry/Not Sorry, from directors and producers Caroline Suh and Cara Mones, shines a spotlight on the difficult questions raised when someone’s egregious actions result in them being “canceled.”

It's a serious look at the scandal involving comedian Louis C. K.

There’s a lot of soul-searching in Sorry/Not Sorry. ... Not, however, by the subject of the documentary itself.

Sorry/Not Sorry breaks down into several chapters, running through the phases and issues involved in the troubling case of a genuinely talented performer whose personal behavior proves both hateful and hurtful.

What’s most illuminating about this documentary isn’t what C.K. did—which is both disgusting and degrading to the victims and himself—but what people around him didn’t do.