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This film by Orson Welles about the fictional media mogul Charles Kane is too dark and not entertaining enough.
This is what it says in a film review from 1941. The metacritic site Rotten Tomatoes unearthed this article - and almost 80 years after its premiere, it ruined the immaculate rating of »Citizen Kane«, widely regarded as the best film in the world.
The rating portal Rotten Tomatoes aggregates film reviews and on this basis gives films and series a rating in the form of a percentage and a fresh or spoiled tomato.
"Citizen Kane" was one of 15 films with a 100 percent rating.
Alfred Hitchcock's “Rebecca” (1940), Charlie Chaplin's “Modern Times” (1936), but also “Paddington 2” (2018) by Paul King, a film with an animated bear in the leading role, based on the Children's books by Michael Bond.
"The renunciation of simplicity in favor of eccentricity robs it of distinctive character and general entertainment value."
Film review for »Citizen Kane from 1941
The now unearthed review comes from the Chicago Tribune and was published on May 7, 1941 under the title “Citizen Kane fails to impress critics as the best film of all time”. Among other things, it says: “He's interesting. He is different. In fact, it's bizarre enough to become a museum piece. But abandoning simplicity in favor of eccentricity robs it of distinctive character and general entertainment value. "The author, who went under the pseudonym Mae Tinee, added," All I know is that you get cold and that I always do again wishing he'd let in some sunshine. "
"Citizen Kane" is about the billionaire Charles Kane, in whom the then powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was easy to recognize.
The drama of Hollywood prodigy Welles earned nine Academy Award nominations, including Welles for Best Director and Leading Actor.
In the end, there was only one trophy for the script that Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz had to share.
Director David Fincher tells of the creation of the script with the two-time Oscar-winning Netflix production »Mank«.
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