Its obsession with movie history minus tired romanticism makes it strangely enchanting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2024

Is it his most accessible film to date? No, but who cares? We got a new Fincher movie in 2020 and it was very much a Fincher movie.

| Apr 4, 2024

Given the vastness of Hollywood itself to fool around in, Fincher is aimless. He needs to hole himself up somewhere and get back to work.

| Feb 6, 2024

Mank probably spends more time than necessary defining the protagonist's own crisis of conscience within a corrupt and decaying dream factory.

| Feb 6, 2024

Mank tries hard to be cinematic ambrosia, but, like a beautiful cake with too much frosting, it doesn’t entirely satisfy, even though it looks amazing.

| Jul 24, 2023

With the perfectionist, dedicated David Fincher at the helm, his late father's screenplay ends up being the filmmaker's most personal project so far. A wonderful homage not only to Citizen Kane but also to the 30s/40s decades.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

All in all, this movie has the dramatic punch and heartfelt energy that would easily make this film a classic, and it's not too far off from achieving that goal.

| Jun 16, 2023

It is a wonderful ode to old Hollywood ode the 30s and early 40s and a tribute to a writer known for controversy and personality rather than his talent.

| Mar 6, 2023

Mank isn’t about the incredibly tedious question of who wrote Citizen Kane —that’s the hook, but the film’s true interest, to my immense relief, is the incredibly specific story of Upton Sinclair’s failed 1934 California gubernatorial bid.

| Nov 28, 2022

Just like Charles Foster Kane and the film about him, ultimately Mank is something that is much easier to be admired than loved.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2022

By knowing the boundaries of fiction and steeping real-life characters within them, Mank lets us see Fincher's love for cinema and how cruel that industry can be to those who love it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 13, 2022

A wildly entertaining throwback to the Golden Age of Hollywood filmmaking during political unrest, tested loyalties and fear propaganda.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 9, 2022

It’s an applause-worthy celebration of the art of cinema - a visual and performance-rich delight.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

The biopic of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz is gloriously old-fashioned in its style but startling in its contemporary relevance.

| Aug 17, 2022

The phrase The Magic of The Movies is used sarcastically by several characters in the film, but what makes Mank so brilliant is that it finds the magic in the people that make the movies.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 28, 2022

In the case of Mank, the most accurate statement that can be said is that it is one of the best films of the year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Fincher's film, both on and off-screen, represents an example of a triumphant artist telling a personal story, and that continues to be a rare thing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2022

As it stands, Mank might have to settle for great over legendary.

| Feb 12, 2022

In many ways it deals with a past that... but also the present. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 9, 2021

Mank is a production that's faithful to its protagonist, but this inevitably puts distance between it and the spectator. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 26, 2021