Genius

Logan’s script, based on A. Scott Berg’s biography of Perkins, isinvested in the craft of words like few other movies nowadays, even those ostensibly aboutwriters.

Michael Grandage's Genius is a deeply romantic film, albeit the kind one rarely sees on screen: a romance of the written word.

The filmmakers can’t solve the age-old problem of making the acts of writing and editing—both profoundly solitary and introspective creative processes—compelling on screen.

Most notably, Jude Law embodies the swift-talking, work-obsessed Thomas Wolfe, right down to charismatic charms that shield him from life’s “numbing boredom.”

...an account of novelist Thomas Wolfe’s literary career as seen through the eyes of his editor, Maxwell Perkins...