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.
Citizen Kane has generally received very positive reviews.
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Review of Citizen Kane (1941)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Jan 2000
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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 01 Jan 2000
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Review of Citizen Kane (1941)
Review of Citizen Kane (1941)
Review of Citizen Kane (1941)
Review of Citizen Kane (1941)
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Citizen Kane was released in 1941 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 945 reviews, giving Citizen Kane (1941) an average rating of 87%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 95%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 89%.
With a score of 87%, Citizen Kane is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1941, which stands at 63%.
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