“I did the things.”
Thus begins “Weiner,” Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s car-crash of a documentary about disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner.
The shrapnel of those reprehensible “things” continues to fly months after the film’s release. The FBI’s investigation of Weiner forย inappropriate text messages he sent to a minor created an email trail from his computer to his wife, Huma Abedin, who is Hillary Clinton’s top aide. And what Clinton does not need is more email trouble.
While Weiner the man has become a bit of a morbid spectacle, “Weiner” the documentary is not.
More unfortunate — actually, call it stupid — is one of Weiner’s explanations of what happened.