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By Mike F (585) on 16 Jul 2010

Easy to watch but boring, the scene where lucy and george say goodbye gets me every time…

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By Cole H (61) on 16 Jul 2010

Easy to watch but boring, the scene where lucy and george say goodbye gets me every time…

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By Robby R (128) on 29 Jun 2010

Like Citizen Kane, its storytelling relies, or rather, is rooted in the visuals; that is the dexterity and economy of the camerawork, which…

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By Margaret S (103) on 04 Jun 2010

Not perfect, but still quite fascinating, even in its butchered state…

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By Dylan N (197) on 04 Jun 2010

A great American tragedy (until the bizarrely gung-ho ending) about which much ink has been devoted to…

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By Brian M (1,664) on 02 Jun 2010

Had Robert Wise, under instructions from RKO, not edited this film with a lawnmower as Welles put it, The Magnificent Ambersons would surely…

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By Michael A (1,637) on 16 May 2010

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - even in its truncated version - makes it clear that orson welles still had miles of filmic vision to spare after…

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By Louise D (267) on 30 Apr 2010

Inconsistent melodrama. probably would have been similarly bizarre to modern tastes even without the infamous studio meddling…

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By Bodie D (4) on 24 Apr 2010

It's common talk that Citizen Kane is the best film ever made, or the best film Orson Welles ever did, but I find Kane to be a lumbering, overblown…

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By Will D (958) on 27 Mar 2010

Brilliant up until the ending, which is a very unsatisfactory happy ending…

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By Devon B (391) on 06 Mar 2010

Contains some fine cinematography but I found the movie boring…

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By Tim S (2,419) on 05 Mar 2010

I enjoyed it a little bit more than Kane…

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By Joshua H (844) on 26 Feb 2010

I went into this wanting to love it. Why not? I can imagine that I had the same feeling many had in 1942…

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By Antoine S (82) on 20 Feb 2010

Hacked about by a confused RKO, Welles' second film (from the novel by Booth Tarkington) still looks a masterpiece, astounding for its almost…

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By Jamie T (429) on 30 Jan 2010

Although it's been many years since I saw this, I found it to be a masterpiece, arguably better than CITIZEN KANE, even in its mangled form…

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By Simon M (879) on 10 Jan 2010

A strange movie, there are flashes of genius but the whole narrative is disjointed…

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By Elgan D (601) on 10 Jan 2010

A strange movie, there are flashes of genius but the whole narrative is disjointed…

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By Andrew B (2,971) on 30 Dec 2009

Another great Orson Welles movie. Great depth to the characters. A simple enough plot that has been acted out and directed really well…

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By Paul D (6,077) on 10 Dec 2009

Citizen Kane, no matter what you may think of it personally, is undeniably one of the most important motion pictures ever made, and in 1942…

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By Marat P (198) on 13 Oct 2009

Some great shots, but the story just didn't strike the right chords with me…

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