Film Review - The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026)

The Wizard of the Kremlin stars Paul Dano as Vadim Baranov a Russian TV producer who is recruited in the 1990’s to help Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) rise to power in a post Cold War Russia. The Wizard of the Kremlin is the kind of movie that feels like catnip for me, a historical drama about a real life figure and the history they create as well as the history we can learn from but this movie while…