Citizen Kane(1941)- User Reviews

"Best movie of all time" acclamation made me decide to watch it but this movie was just the same old stuff as dozens of other movies (admittedly they came later) but the format used was poor. The newsreel summation of his life at the beginning …more»

Wow, that was something! Another great classic. Lots of powerful scenes and drama. Fantastic acting. I found this film to be very interesting. It does a very good job with pulling everything together as it goes along. You need to pay close attention to …more»

This is a tough movie to judge. You always hear "This is the greatest movie of all time, you HAVE to see it." Granted, at the time, the acting, the everything.... I get it. I took film appreciation as an art class in college. Yeah, I used it …more»

The film all other films made after its release have imitated in story, acting and cinematography. It gave the public a completely different experience in watching movies.
Citizen Kane defined what a movie actually is.
Watch it -- you'll never …more»

"Citizen Kane" is certainly a cinematic masterpiece, especially its groundbreaking cinematography and lighting. The prodigy Orson Welles is at his apex here, aging from a 20-something to an old man in a gloomy San Simean-like mansion. Yes, there …more»

Ok. I admit that the order of my favorite movies is sentimentally skewed. This is the greatest American movie ever. Orson Wells made a masterpiece in every aspect of film making, missing only a little on film score. But as with the previous two, you must …more»

Citizen Kane is a classic. I'm not sure if I would name it the best movie of all-time, but it is definitely a major landmark in film. You can see all the references that are used today that originated with this movie. Orson Welles is outstanding both …more»

Orson Welles begins a film revolution with the 1941 classic Citizen Kane. As tycoon Charles Foster Kane lay on his deathbed he utters the word 'Rosebud' just before he passes. This causes his followers to journey to try and find the significance …more»

Originally I was accepting of the nickname of the sled, but finding out what 'Rosebud' actually was code for in the world of William Randolph Hearst... Welles was probably lucky he wasn't killed, literally.
Listed as No. 1 on the AFI top 100 …more»

Its funny that every critic rated this an "A". This proves my theory that critics are essentially lemmings and cannot really think for themselves. Seriously I saw this and others have seen this and really did not like it. So you would think …more»