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Mank is a glorious throwback to a bygone Hollywood filmmaking era that still manages to feel current with themes about fake news, manually crafting a legacy of power brokers, and how one person tried to change the historical narrative via the medium of film. The fact the film turned out to be the iconic Orson Welles movie Citizen Kane makes the story even cooler. Shot in beautiful black and white with a flip-flopping flashback and flashforward narrative, Mank evokes the tone and structure of Citizen Kane without ever feeling like a rip off. Instead, this is a companion piece to one of the most famous movies ever made. One will have to know how Kane works to get the most out of Mank, but the movie stands on it’s own as a story about a quirky yet resolute man who tried to express truth through art and the problems it caused. ....
That little girl knows we shouldn t be gathering. HAPPIEST SEASON. Having made no secret of my childlike but abiding love of Christmas movies and despite our conventional notions of time and meaningful dates of demarcation having slipped away in 2020, I feel compelled to watch them. Maybe it s a passive version of the denial that has led swaths of the populace to wantonly infect each other, maybe a minor act of nostalgia hard to say. But the tree is trimmed, stockings by the chimney (not far from a similar display of masks), the door is bolted and I m watching holiday movies. ....