‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Overview: Jude Legislation, as Vladimir Putin, and Paul Dano, as His Proper-Hand Shadow, Give Ace Performances in What Is Principally a Glorified TV-Film

I want I might say that “The Wizard of the Kremlin” was a film as gripping as Legislation’s Putin is himself, or one which exerts the overall amoral fascination of Baranov’s postmodern totalitarian scheming. However the film, directed by Olivier Assayas (from a script he co-wrote with Emmanuel Carrère), is without delay absorbing and diffuse. It’s episodic to a fault, and regardless of these two ace performances it by no means finds a forceful dramatic heart.Learn Extra