Citizen Kane

Rating: 10/10 (9 June 1999)

Powerful motion picture that grabs you from the opening shot right to the close. Welles is amazing as director, writer and star of this astounding motion picture about Charles Foster Kane, (based on newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst) whose idea of news opened the floodgates for giants like Winchell, who made their own news. Kane made people, but also broke people as well. It's a shattering study of greed, torment and mental anquish; all brought to us in realistic fashion with a superb script and top notch support from Moorehead, Cotten and Warrick. Snubbed by Oscar in 1941, the film only won for its taut screenplay. A haunting film that will continue to be studied by film students, directors, actors and historians for years and years to come.