Mystery · Drama
Citizen Kane
Avg rating 9.0 / My rating TBC
1941 · Directed by Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
- Classical Hollywood
- Auteur Cinema
- Melodrama
A powerful newspaper publisher dies alone in a vast mansion, leaving a single word on his lips. A reporter is sent to learn what it meant, and pieces together the man from the people who knew him, each telling a different story.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 59m · 119 min
- Format
- Black and white, 1.37:1 Academy ratio, English, 119 minutes. Sound and image are rich enough to reward a good screen and volume.
- IMDb
- 8.2 / 10 (491,492 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 99% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 100 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (audience, 6,253 votes)
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