This is a classier version of Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, and I can’t really recommend Mank without a series of asterisks and a FilmBro explanation filled with Well, actually’s.
I had really hoped that Fincher would remove the elements of Pauline Kael’s debunked and ill-informed article that Fincher’s father had based the original screenplay on.
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, and the unfounded and disproven allegations that Orson Welles had nothing to do with the Citizen Kane screenplay get to live on.…