Utterly unmissable.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 1, 2024

Genuinely innovative film-making.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2024

Kane innovated several filmmaking techniques. The film pioneered a genre.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2023

Everything about this movie's production and origin, the precedent-setting technical aspects, and the innovative storytelling all prove that Orson Welles was a perfectionist filmmaker far ahead of its time.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jul 24, 2023

Many argue it to be the greatest film ever made.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2023

What is significant is that we owe the most audacious film in the last ten years to a young man of twenty-five who had nothing to recommend him except his ideas.

Full Review | Jun 13, 2023

...the ultimate Welles film...

Full Review | Mar 1, 2023

A monumental film in cinema history.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

This is an adult film, technically and psychologically adult, recognizing the ultimate obscurity in which every human life moves; one of the few, the very few, films to present not an abstraction, but a man.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2022

Orson Welles, who plays Kane, produces and directs, has driven to the heart of his subject with a fierce, thrusting energy that is rare and refreshing.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2022

A distinctly out-of-the-rut production and a great piece of cinema artistry.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2022

Perhaps the film's most resonant quality is that, through the film's story and production, Welles inspires the same investigative process about himself and his picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

"Citizen Kane" forever changed the way movies were made and interpreted. It's still relevant and unique 80 years after its release. Is it the greatest movie ever? Maybe, maybe not. The most influential? Without a doubt, yes.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2022

I can't think of an American-made film that stands up to multiple viewings quite like 'Kane'...it never feels like Welles and company are showing off, just showing what a movie can do.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 2, 2021

Welles is the most exciting thing that's happened since sound.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2021

I particularly like the structure of the film, especially the use of the news reel footage and the newspaper headlines to move the plot forward.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2021

We aren't going to quibble about the genius business. Time will take care of that and if Welles goes down in history as one well be happy to have been among those who enjoyed the results of his great talent.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2021

The sheer brilliance and audacity of Citizen Kane... make the film the most astounding cinematic achievement of the season. It ranks with Disney's Fantasia as a milestone in motion picture technique.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2021

Ordinary standards will not serve for Citizen Kane; extravagance of idea for serious ends is not common enough in the cinema to provide a yardstick.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2021

Citizen Kane Is a triumph not only for Orson Welles, but for his entire company as well.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2021