Dramatizations of real-life occasions proceed to rule the film and TV panorama in 2022, from true-crime sequence like “Inventing Anna,” “The Dropout,” and “Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story” to superstar biopics like “Blonde” and “Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story.” Many true-crime tales have been criticized for the glorification of perpetrators on the expense of their victims, however “She Mentioned,” the newest true-crime film that tells the story of how New York Occasions reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct in Hollywood, avoids this sensationalized storytelling.

Directed by Maria Schrader and written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, “She Mentioned” is based totally on the memoir of the identical identify and cowritten by Kantor and Twohey, who aren’t solely the main characters within the film however have been additionally used closely for inspiration by the actors who play them, Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan.

On the subject of many years of sexual-assault allegations, company-wide misconduct, information of abusive energy in Hollywood swept beneath the rug, and the moral practices of journalists to uncover all of it, some questions come up about which particulars within the film are fact-based. In keeping with an interview with the Los Angeles Occasions, Lenkiewicz estimates about 95 p.c of the story is true to life, although she took “tiny liberties” for the sake of dramatic impression, saying “listening to a telephone name is extra thrilling than studying an e-mail. It is the reality, only a bit extra animated.”

Forward is a breakdown of what is true to life in “She Mentioned” and what’s not fairly correct.