Atom User Reviews for Citizen Kane 80th Anniversary presented by TCM
My dream come true! CK on the big screen! Priceless.
Often considered the best movie ever, it’s filled with innovative techniques and wonderful performances.
The movie skipped a few times, but it was still 5 Stars because the movie deserves it. It was both a pleasure and a shame that I was the only one in the theater. Even though my guest canceled, I'm glad I bought two tickets; it deserved many more than that.
Great movie!
It this film were made today, it would be called Citizen Trump
Citizen Kane is a legit American Masterpiece.
Metacritic
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.
Its surface is as much fun as any movie ever made. Its depths surpass understanding. I have analyzed it a shot at a time with more than 30 groups, and together we have seen, I believe, pretty much everything that is there on the screen. The more clearly I can see its physical manifestation, the more I am stirred by its mystery.