A wonderful movie for any era.

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2017)

Before watching this, I knew that Citizen Kane was considered to be a "great" movie, but to be perfectly honest, I wasn't expecting a good movie. I was surprised by it, not just as a historical artifact, but as a high-quality piece of entertainment.
It was just a fun movie, with all the heights of Charles Foster Kane's career being moments of great delight and all of his lows being moments of great tension. Orson Welles's performance, as one might expect, was intense and expressive. The film's plot with its mystery structure and extensive flashbacks were well-done as well.
I don't know enough about film to critique Citizen Kane on that level, but I can say confidently that it is not just a great movie. It is a good one.