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- 1941
- Approved
- 1 h 59 m
- 1941
- Approved
- 1 h 59 m
Summary Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Directed By: Orson Welles
- 1941
- Approved
- 1 h 59 m
- 1941
- Approved
- 1 h 59 m
Citizen Kane
8.4
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Summary Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Directed By: Orson Welles
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
100
100% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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There is hardly a shot in Orson Welles’ towering achivement that doesn’t employ some sort of ingenious trick involving the camera, editing, sound, staging or production design. Kane didn’t invent all of its techniques, but it’s one of the few pictures I can think of that uses almost every one in the movie playbook. The film is like a dictionary of the cinematic language.
Citizen Kane...has the best of everything: a great director and star, innovative cinematography, dreamlike - even nightmarish - art direction, a sonorous musical score, a skillful screenplay in which comic passages intensify the movie's tragic qualities by means of their grotesque juxtaposition (how lifelike!), a psychological / narrative form that predates our contemporary "psycho-histories" by at least 40 years, and best of all, a memorial word that, when spoken, recalls the film out of thin air.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 847 User Ratings
8.4
87% Positive
739 Ratings
739 Ratings
7% Mixed
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
6% Negative
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 847 User Ratings
8.4
87% Positive
739 Ratings
739 Ratings
7% Mixed
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
6% Negative
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
Citizen Kane, the greatest movie ever made. Why is that though. Most people hate citizen Kane as it is often given this title and seems boring to most people. The reason this movie is considered the best was because of its ideas influence and writing. That’s the thing with people now day. They don’t appreciate these great classics.
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Que dire de plus de ce chef d’œuvre que l'on peut voir et revoir sans se lasser.
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It is the epitome of filmmaking, a masterpiece for which Welles, one of the greatest practitioners of the cinematic art, will be forever remembered.
I still stare at it, amazed and entertained, but dwarfed by the very idea of attempting to untangle the crow’s nest that has formed through the film’s ever-expanding histories. And what continuously stupefies me is that time works no miracles on this particular film: Scenes remain familiar, but the narrative seems to shift every time I return to it.
It happens to be a first-class film of potent importance to the art of motion pictures...a triumph for Orson Welles.
Welles displays touches of genius in the handling of his story. His cast, made up of players from his Mercury Theatre group, respond like sensitive musicians to the movements of the conductor’s baton.
Citizen Kane does occasionally sink to dullness because of its reiterations, notwithstanding it can be classified as, in a number of aspects, one of the most arresting pictures ever produced.
An absolute masterpiece of a movie that has stood the test of time as one of the greatest movies ever made to this day.
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For the time, this movie may have been gold. That is a fact that no one can dispute. However, it absolutely does not hold up today. Citizen Kane is a dull, boring and unsatisfying film that while yes, for the time its technical achievements were a marvel to see, did not live up to the hype for me. To me, this is not one of the top 100 films of all time anymore.
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It's a boring movie and I am surprised that this is one of the top movies of all time. However, the cinematic techniques were pretty good for the time the movie was made.
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A truly awful film to watch, with little direction or meaning given to the plot itself. You'll find yourself looking for the film technique and realize you've been duped into viewing a person coming to terms with film as art. Typical acting, and an ending that makes you livid that you even tuned in. While I admire the modernism of the technique Welles used, this is by no means the way I remember Welles. It seems far more important and significant to remember Welles as a modern artist who believed firmly that racism was a disease that required eradication.
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Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures,
Mercury Productions
Release Date Sep 4, 1941
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating Approved
Tagline Radio's Most Dynamic Artist . . The Man At Whose Voice A Nation Trembled . . . Now the screen's most exciting NEW star ! ORSON WELLES in the picture Hollywood said he'd never make
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
