The Wonder: Faith Without Food in 19th Century Post-Famine Ireland
ReviewJim SlotekFlorence Pugh, Don’t Worry, Darling, The Wonder, "Miracle" fasts, Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Lady Macbeth, Sarah Jacobs, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Burke, Irish famine
True Things: Ruth Wilson as A Woman Undone, Half-Willingly
Original-Cin Q&A: Amanda Seyfried talks about David Fincher's many takes in Mank, and the lost talent of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies
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InterviewJim SlotekMank, David Fincher, Netflix, Citizen Kane, Greatest movie of all time, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Gary Oldman, Orson Welles, Tom Burke, Amanda Seyfried, Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, Award season movies
Mank: A workmanlike retelling of Citizen Kane's apocryphal man-behind-the-masterpiece myth
ReviewJim SlotekMovies about golden age Hollywood, Mank, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, David Fincher, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Gary Oldman, Lily Collins, Tom Burke, Erik Messerschmidt, George S. Kaufman, SJ Perelman, Ben Hecht, Irving Thalberg, William Randolph Hearst, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Donald Graham Burt, Jack Fincher, Upton Sinclair, Amanda Seyfried, Marion Davies, Tuppence Middleton, Pauline Kael
The Souvenir: Two Swintons, and an autobiographical take on an artistic voice muted by an affair