Citizen Kane

1941 • 119 minutes

About this movie

Orson Welles' masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner (1941) is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity -- the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word: "Rosebud." MPAA Rating: PG Copyright © 1941 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

This film is widely regarded as the greatest film ever made by a varied list of highly acclaimed film critics and experts. This belief carries over to low intelligence film school students, self described movie buffs, movie geeks, and many other bleating sheep who believe they must parrot what they've heard from wise men who have expounded endlessly on the beauty of the emperor's new clothes, or else they will be considered a dullard or worse, someone who doesn't 'get it'. But the blowhards, the bleating

I understand why this comes up at #1 on alot of best movie lists, but i don't agree with it. Its something you can watch and forget. There's just not much nuance in the story. The cinematography was interesting for its time, but that's about it. I'd say this is a rental. Casablanca or Rear Window, those are the ones you buy. So you can watch over and over again.

It's a good movie but to hear it being called "the greatest movie ever made". Well, definitely not. I'm a big fan of film myself and I would not consider this even a great movie.