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More of the same excellence in Fincher’s ‘The Killer’

Posted on December 11, 2023 by reelentropy

9/10 Director David Fincher, backed by Netflix, has been angling for awards lately, first with flagship series “House of Cards,” then a black-and-white stab at the great American biopic with Mank, and now The Killer, another American arthouse cliché of … Continue reading →

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‘Mank’ a decent Welles impression at the expense of a Fincher movie

Posted on December 14, 2020 by reelentropy

7/10 Mank is a fine film and certainly more than you could expect from a typical Oscar-season offering, but something’s missing. March 1940, Victorville, California- Outcast Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. “Mank” Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), confined to his bed with a … Continue reading →

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