The September Issue(2009)- User Reviews

I came away from this movie liking Anna Wintour more than I thought I would. But the most fascinating aspect of the movie is that, as it progresses, you get the sense that all of Anna's decisions are really just arbitary (albeit final) and that the real genius behind the magazine is Grace. I have never seen such absolutely beautiful images as the ones she envisions. In a telling scene, one of the most beautiful of these images is rejected out of hand by Anna because it isn't "sharp" enough. What she has missed, and what Grace so rightly points out, is that that's the point - it is meant to be atmospheric, something that Anna doesn't seem to even understand.
In one of the final scenes, Anna whole hearthed praises Graces amazing talent, as rightly she should, as it is stirkingly obvious that she is the real genius behind the magazine.