Mank, a black-and-white period piece for grown-ups starring Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz, who wrote the Citizen Kane screenplay, has been one of the more anticipated movies of this blighted year. …
The movie completely leaves out that the contrarian Mankiewicz, who had fought in World War I and was not looking forward to American getting involved in World War II, was a rare Jewish isolationist, an admirer of Charles Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Amanda Seyfried lights up the flat screen as Marion Davies …
