Rosebud revisited

ou cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours. All you can hope for is to leave an impression of one.” So says New Yorker critic turned playwright turned script doctor Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) — or Mank, later to be retitled And just as Mankiewicz and Orson Welles most certainly achieved this objective with their rise-and-fall-and-so-much-more story of Charles Foster Kane, so too does this telling of how Mank co-wrote The Greatest Film Ever Made.