Citizen Kane
Back to browse
80% Critic Match

Citizen Kane

Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.

8.0 / 10 1941 1h 59mNR English
MysteryDrama

Storyline

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 & Crew

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane

Lead
Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

Jedediah Leland

Dorothy Comingore

Dorothy Comingore

Susan Alexander Kane

Ray Collins

Ray Collins

Jim W. Gettys

George Coulouris

George Coulouris

Walter Parks Thatcher

Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Moorehead

Mary Kane

Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart

Raymond

Ruth Warrick

Ruth Warrick

Emily Norton Kane

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Orson Welles's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Citizen Kane is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker