Perhaps the most striking reveal in the new documentary about the writer E. Jean Carroll is just how magnetic she is. Whether in voiceover snippets of her writing, clips of her mid-’90s talk show or interviews from the present, what shines through bright as day is her personality: curious, mischievous and candid, without pretense and also not without warmth.

Her charisma may come as a surprise if, like many people in 2025, you know her mainly for being one of Donald Trump ’s accusers. In Ask E. Jean , now premiering at Telluride , the fact of that surprise becomes its own minor tragedy: Here is a fascinating woman in her own right, distilled in the public imagination to someone else’s crime. In that sense, the Ivy Meeropol-directed documentary might be a corrective step. While i

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