Citizen Kane

Movie • 1941

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Peerless cinematography and storytelling. A must-watch for any monochrome connoisseur.

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Explore the enigmatic life of Charles Foster Kane through the lens of Orson Welles, a groundbreaking cinematic achievement.

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Known for its innovative cinematography by Gregg Toland, this film is a visual masterpiece and a classic example of storytelling through visuals.

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Known for its innovative cinematography by Gregg Toland, this film is a visual masterpiece and a classic example of storytelling through visuals.

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Known for its innovative cinematography by Gregg Toland, this film is a visual masterpiece and a classic example of storytelling through visuals.

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Orson Welles' directorial debut, Citizen Kane, revolutionized the art of filmmaking. The captivating performance by Welles himself as Charles Foster Kane makes it a must-see for anyone interested in the history of cinema.

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Overview

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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Roger Ebert

"Citizen Kane is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound."

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Rotten Tomatoes

Orson Welles is excellent as both actor and director, and the way the story is told, via flashbacks from multiple perspectives and short jumps in time, is compelling.

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Variety

'Citizen Kane' is a two-hour show, filled to the last minute with brilliant incident unreeled in method and effects that sparkle with originality and invention.

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Reelviews Movie Reviews

Citizen Kane has been lauded as the greatest motion picture to come out of America during the black-and-white era.

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The Hollywood Reporter

Citizen Kane is a great motion picture. Great in that it was produced by a man who had never had any motion picture experience; great because he cast it with people who had never faced a camera in a motion picture production before.

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TIME

So sharply does Citizen Kane veer from cinema cliche, it hardly seems like a movie.

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The New Yorker

“Something new has come to the movie world at last.”

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IMDb

What Welles showed in Charles Foster Kane was the insincerity of his beliefs.

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