[a] heartfelt, extravagant movie; what an addictive romantic drama it is, mixing sentimentality with pure rapture; a gorgeously shot film that both revels in Hollywood's golden age and exposes its corruption
[a] heady Netflix drama; 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
written by Jack Fincher, who is David Fincher's (late) father, "Mank" is a lusciously evocative, verbally sharp-angled movie that's never less than engrossing
shot in stunning black-and-white, "Mank" delivers Hollywood in a multitude of greys. Built on a towering performance by Gary Oldman, it's smart, sophisticated, by turns thrilling and difficult, and amongst David Fincher's best
David Fincher's alluring black-and-white take on "Citizen Kane" screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (an acerbic and funny Gary Oldman) presents a fascinating meditation on an under-appreciated luminary of American cinema in its own antiquated language