Now that we can talk about the movie's various aspects...

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2005)

Okay, I can't stress how great a movie "Citizen Kane" is. I swear that it has no bad qualities. Telling the story of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), a William Randolph Hearst-like magnate, the movie broke some taboos when it first came out, and was unfortunately a flop at the box office.
Now to talk about other things. For starters, this was Agnes Moorehead's film debut. She is of course best known for playing Endora on "Bewitched". That means that Samantha Stephens and Charles Foster Kane have the same mother! Ironic, since the two have practically nothing in common (she has no bad qualities, he has no good qualities).
And, does anyone remember that time when "The Simpsons" opened with a spoof of "Citizen Kane"? Mr. Burns was lying in bed remembering his teddy bear Bobo, the way that Kane was lying in bed breathing "Rosebud".
Oh well. The point is that you just gotta see this movie. Very few movies have been this good. On a scale of one to ten, "Citizen Kane" is a twenty.