Although Covid-19 has closed many movie theaters, Hollywood continues to release movies. And among the most recent is Mank. It began streaming on Netflix on December 4th. The theme of the film is the rivalry between Herman Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), leading Hollywood screenwriter in the 1930s and 40s, and Orson Wells (Tom Burke), the creative spirit and star of Citizen Kane, a fictionalized account based on the life of William Randolph Hearst, Americaâs most powerful newspaper publisher of the era. The movie is considered by many to be the greatest film ever made, and a 1971 article by the late New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael claimed âMank,â and not Wells, should get full credit for the film. Critics like the New York Timesâ A.O. Scott have already argued the pros and cons of Mank, calling it âa worthy, eminently watchable entry in the annals of Hollywood self-obsession,â but âunreliable as historyâ. One thing they seem to agree on is that