The Living Room Bijou: A Primer on “Citizen Kane” and the Problems with “Mank.”

In which I try to answer the question, “Should I watch Mank?”

Citizen Kane: The Real Thing, a Great Work of Art

So, there you are, feet up, thumbing through the Netflix menu one evening, when up pops a movie called Mank. You read the capsule — the fictionalized story about the writing of an old black-and-white movie called Citizen Kane —…