'Mank' Is A Lushly Rendered Cinematic Landscape
David Fincher's dramatization of Citizen Kane's origin story is an impressive, if occasionally inert, biopic.
A cardinal sin too many biopics indulge in is checking off the beat-by-beat life excerpts, ignoring a specified vision for depicting their real-life protagonists in favor of broad strokes. , directed by David Fincher and based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack, is no such kind of biopic, thankfully. Inspired by Pauline Kael's spicy (and since widely discredited) tome "," which argued Herman J. Mankiewicz deserved sole credit for the script, not Orson Welles, the film is as much
