![]() ![]() ![]() “Genius,” Michael Grandage’s stalwart if staid biopic about literary editor Maxwell Perkins and author Thomas Wolfe, largely sidesteps the Scylla and Charybdis of inertia and burlesque through which any film about an artist must pass. And it’s just as disastrous when an ambitious filmmaker tries to liven things up by confecting a dramatic piece of business to demonstrate the writer’s plight, the most ludicrous example being Jane Fonda’s Lillian Hellman throwing her typewriter out a window in a bout of writerly pique. Making movies about writers is treacherous business: There’s next to nothing cinematic about someone tapping away on a keyboard, then staring into the distance to think. During the early part of the 20th century, editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth), left works with another Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), a literary partnership shown from all angles in “Genius.” (Marc Brenner/Roadside Attractions)
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