Anne Gilbert notes the increasing popularity of the “first-person diary-style approach” at documentary filmmaking in her review of Supersize Me. Like Murray and Heumann, Gilbert argues that Supersize Me's success comes mostly from Spurlock's charming…
Critic Daniel Trilling reviewed Robert Kenner's documentary Food Inc., also noting its limited success at inciting social reform and comparing it to Upton Sinclair's famous muckraker novel The Jungle. Trilling states that Kenner, “when faced with the…