I'm writing it up as puzzling

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2007)

I'm sure this one is overrated. It's one of very few I have seen from its period, and surely there must be others like it, or superior to it. I'm thinking "Casablanca", "Out of the Past" or "Rebecca". That being said, the bland face and sombre voice of Orson Welles are always worth the small price of a movie ticket or rental. What I like most about "Citizen Kane" is that it takes us back to a time when newsprint mattered and the written word was a power to be reckoned with. The cruel incident of the opera review begun by a drunkard and finished by a madman is priceless. It's a story within the story, one of the many pieces of the puzzle that is Rosebud.