Storyline
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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Gary Oldman, John Churchill, Charles Dance, Amanda Seyfried, Richmond Arquette, David Lee Smith, Mark Fite, Paul Carafotes, Arliss Howard, Lily Collins, Jamie McShane, Paul Fox, Sam Troughton, Adam Shapiro, Monika Gossmann, Mario Di Donato, Joseph Cross, Leven Rambin, Tom Burke, Tuppence Middleton, Flo Lawrence, Elvy Yost, Brian Jones, Ferdinand Kingsley, Toby Leonard Moore, Amie Farrell, Lou George, Craig Robert Young, Madison West Gill, Keith Barber, John Patrick Jordan, Natalie Denise Sperl, Jaclyn Bethany, Arlo Mertz, Rick Pasqualone, Craig Welzbacher, Kingston Vernes, Christian Prentice, Tom Pelphrey, Jack Romano, Jeff Harms, Derek Petropolis, Sean Persaud, Tom Simmons, Nick Job, Colin Ward, Cooper Tomlinson, Julie Collis, Jessie Cohen, Desiree Louise, Ian Boyd, Jay Villwock, John Lee Ames, Bill Nye, James Patrick Duffy, Randy Davison, Gary Teitelbaum, Eden Wattez, Roslyn Cohn, Ben Mankiewicz, Camille Montgomery, Anne Beyer, Joey Hagler, Sean Donnellan, Stewart Skelton, Malachi Rivers, Kaytlin Borgen, Ali Axelrad, Adrienne Evans, Dana Lyn Baron, Cary Christopher, Scarlet Cummings, Alex Leontev, Matteo Menzies, Tyler Schweer, Michelle Twarowska, Adam Woldtvedt, Sebastian Faure
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Reviews
100
What an addictive romantic drama it is, mixing sentimentality with pure rapture.
88
A wonderful throwback about a flawed figure who took on a hostile era in Hollywood with choice words and major chutzpah.
83
The story then becomes less a forensic accounting of a masterpiece than a bittersweet ode to a certain slice of old Hollywood: part love letter, part cautionary tale, and still somehow a mystery.
83
Though forged in a meticulous 1930s backdrop that merges historical detail with the style and tone of that era, “Mank” is hardly a playful throwback. Fincher has made a cerebral psychodrama that rewards the engaged cinephile audience in its crosshairs, but even when cold to the touch, the movie delivers a complex and insightful look at American power structures and the potential for a creative spark to rankle their foundations.
75
I think the most productive way to look at Mank, a new film about Hollywood in the 1930s and ‘40s, and about the screenwriter of a particularly famous and iconic work, is to understand it as Fincher’s most playful work.
