REVIEW — ‘The East’: A Conspiracy for a Conspiracy Makes the Whole World Blind

There can be no greater incidental marketing boost for a specialty theatrical release like Zal Batmanglij’s The East than the global surge of righteous rage against evil food giant Monsanto and the release this weekend of the WikiLeaks documentary We Steal Secrets, which apparently portrays Julian Assange rather unfavorably at times (as I’ve parodied in another post, I think he’s hilarious).

Made for critical-thinking The New Yorker readers like me,