Citizen Kane (1941)
0.7041Canon Score · ranked #1 all time
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About the film
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.
Why it ranks #1
Every list on which Citizen Kane appears, with its position as published.