The wait for David Fincher‘s “Mank” is not quite over, but the social media embargo lifted on Thursday night, allowing critics to give their first impressions of the director’s latest film. Nearly ...
In one history of the movies, “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz might look like a footnote. The former playwright had a hand in many famous pictures, including “The Wizard of Oz,” but most ...
The newest film from David Fincher, Mank, is here and it’s most certainly not what we expected from the director. It’s a black and white, semi-autobiographical biopic of writer Herman J. Mankiewicz as ...
When you watch a biographical movie about an artist, the drama of creativity — the writing of “In Cold Blood,” the invention of funk — tends to be front and center. But in “Mank,” David Fincher’s ...
What's a gal gotta do to get a light? Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman in 'Mank'. Courtesy of Netflix And amid and around all of this, it’s a damn good yarn – funny, whipsmart, evocative, wonderfully ...
NPR's David Greene talks to critic Kenneth Turan about David Fincher's film, Mank, which looks at the life of writer Herman Mankiewicz during the... Movie Review: 'Mank' Is A Love Letter To Classic ...
One of the most iconic moments in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane comes near the end, as the aging and once-powerful newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, now at the lowest point in his life, shuffles down ...