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Movie Overview
Cast
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten
Agnes Moorehead
Director
Orson Welles
MPAA Rating
PG
Citizen Kane (1941)
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5/5
"In addition to being the first great independent movie,
Citizen Kane
is the first great character drama."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
"If you haven't seen it on a wide screen, you should check it out. The breathtakingly innovative visuals are the point of this experience."
Philadelphia City Paper
Cynthia Fuchs
95/100
"A cinematic phantasmagoria, this film is a movie lover's wet dream."
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
A+
"The most auspicious debut film ever for a director."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
4/4
"A backwards detective story with Kane's lost childhood as an elusive puzzle piece in a lifetime of megalomania."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
4/4
"¿La mejor película jamás filmada? Ciertamente una de las mejores."
Doncinema.com
Flavio J. Arosemena
4/4
"Motion picture archives and collections across the world would be poorer without copies of this film, which will forever be recognized as a defining example of American cinema."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
5/5
"The greatest film of all time now has a DVD to match."
Netflix
James Rocchi
A+
"Reviewing
Citizen Kane
is like reviewing The Bible or Shakespeare."
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
10/10
"The question isn’t whether
Citizen Kane
is one of the greatest films ever made; that’s a given. The question is whether it’s THE greatest."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
4/4
"A film that actually feels more modern than most of what we see nowadays, sixty some years later."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
"This is the inherent paradox of Welles' film: that its ending should be so equivocal, providing a satisfying resolution that simultaneously scoffs at such over-simplification."
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Leo Goldsmith
5/5
"Kids who watch this movie can never know how revolutionary it was."
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
5/5
"Charles Foster Kane se torna assustadoramente real à medida em que o filme tenta desvendar sua personalidade."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
"It is, as a critical benchmark, unavoidable."
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rumsey Taylor
A+
"A cinematic perfect storm of technique and sophistication, widely hailed as the apotheosis of all the innovations and advancements of the sound era."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
4/4
"The amazing depth of story and richness of composition make
Citizen Kane
a must-see for anyone who considers themselves a lover of films."
Oscar Guy
Wesley Lovell
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