Citizen Kane (1941)

Citizen Kane rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.2/10· 491K votes

Rotten Tomatoes99%

Metacritic100%

TMDb7.975/10· 6K votes

With 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.2/10 on IMDb and 100/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Cast of Citizen Kane

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  Orson Welles

  as Charles Foster Kane

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  Joseph Cotten

  as Jedediah Leland

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  Dorothy Comingore

  as Susan Alexander Kane

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  Ray Collins

  as Jim W. Gettys

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  George Coulouris

  as Walter Parks Thatcher

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  Agnes Moorehead

  as Mary Kane

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  Paul Stewart

  as Raymond

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  Ruth Warrick

  as Emily Norton Kane

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  Erskine Sanford

  as Herbert Carter

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  William Alland

  as Jerry Thompson/Narrator

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  Everett Sloane

  as Mr. Bernstein

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  Fortunio Bonanova

  as Signor Matiste

Citizen Kane facts

Budget

$839.7K

Box office

$23.2M

Our take on Citizen Kane

Orson Welles's 1941 debut chases the meaning of a dying tycoon's last word, "Rosebud," through the fractured testimony of those who knew him. Its deep-focus photography, bold structure and portrait of power's loneliness reshaped what film could do. Routinely named among the greatest movies ever made, it's a mystery about a man no one truly knew. If its formal daring and melancholy gripped you, seek out ambitious character studies that unravel a life from the outside in.