film twitter.’s review published on Letterboxd:
I am not sure what to think of this movie, i think it's kinda overrated.
sure, it invented a lot of cinematographic techniques and was the first movie to feature a story-line, but honestly this movie failed to get my attention. citizen kane is about a rich white dude running a NEWSPAPER company, it's like, who would want to watch a movie about that?? even as someone who enjoys reading publications like Vox and Salon, i just don't give a damn about anything that happened here. Also orson welles takes advantage of a woman and forces her to sing, that shit would CERTAINLY not fly nowadays.
i would have given this 0 stars, but I'm too scared to trash such a popular film without looking like a contrarian, so 3 stars it is.