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Rateds: PG, Unrated; Length: 119 Minutes; Genre: ; With: Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane and Orson Welles
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
CITIZEN KANE (Unrated) Re-released on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece still seems richer, bolder, more spectacularly alive than any other film of the studio-system era. In effect, the 25-year-old Welles was re-creating movies, turning them into an ingeniously modern form. To watch Citizen Kane is to experience what an audacious-and joyous- leap that was. Welles gives an incomparable performance as Charles Foster Kane, the brashly egomaniacal newspaper publisher who becomes one of the most powerful men in America, but who remains-for all his surface bravado-hollow and alone, a secret martyr to his shattered childhood. The film is being shown in a beautiful new print that allows us to luxuriate in the still-startling chiaroscuro imagery. A+
Posted May 10, 1991
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