"Citizen Mank" because, from the convoluted time line and the black & white images all the way down to the dubbed dialog track, this is basically a remake of Citizen Kane with its screenwriter as the central character.
And like Citizen Kane, the sublime filmmaking overshadows a story that (in Mank) drags its feet all the way to the end. For while Herman J. Mankiewicz co-won the screen writing Oscar for Citizen Kane, Jack Fincher won't win one for this (and not because he was the director's father and wrote this screenplay before passing in 2003).
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"Citizen Mank" because, from the convoluted time line and the black & white images all the way down to the dubbed dialog track, this is basically a remake of Citizen Kane with its screenwriter as the central character.
And like Citizen Kane, the sublime filmmaking overshadows a story that (in Mank) drags its feet all the way to the end. For while Herman J. Mankiewicz co-won the screen writing Oscar for Citizen Kane, Jack Fincher won't win one for this (and not because he was the director's father and wrote this screenplay before passing in 2003).