Creative Duality: Our Review of 2016’s Genius (Spoilers Ahead)

Running the risk of reviewers’ cliché, there is a moment in director Michael Grandage’s Genius that best captures why the film works on a human level: Jude Law’s Thomas Wolfe asks his editor, Colin Firth’s Max Perkins, to allow a final paragraph into his manuscript, despite the protests of the latter that they’ll be stuck editing another…