jpAug 7, 2025
No, it's not another tortured artist biopic. It's a love letter to editing — and a quiet demolition of the lone genius myth. In Genius (2016), writing isn’t sexy. It’s surgery. It’s sweat. And it’s shared.
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Kill Your Darlings: The Unsexy Genius of Genius

The real genius of Genius (2016) is that, while it ostensibly centers on the publication of Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, it isn’t a film about writing at all — it’…

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