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    "‘Citizen Kane’ Loses Its Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score After 1941 Negative Review Resurfaces

    The 80-year-old review says "Citizen Kane" is "a flop" and "gives one the creeps.""

    https://www.indiewire.com/2021/0…

    • Paddington 2 is now the best movie of all time.grafician
    • I don't think that film exists. Never met a single person who's seen it.Hayzilla
    • they make you watch this in film schoolGuyFawkes
    • ^ Do they? Do they really???
      Have you seen it?
      Hayzilla
    • Hayzilla, if it didn't exist, how do you explain the greatest Simpsons episode ever "rosebud" hmm?_niko
    • Oh my god it is sooooo good.nb
    • A great movie on its own, it holds up! However, when taken in the context of the history of cinema, it is easy to see why people say it's the GOATnb
    • I saw the movie. twice at least. one while in the university to discuss it.oey_oey
    • lots of people laughed in the end cause rosebud is the slang for rim job in Portuguese.oey_oey
    • like in the end of the movie in his dying bed he wants someone to lick his ass. splendid.oey_oey
    • i think it's also the first movie with back travel in the story, I mean where the movie goes into telling something that happened in the past.oey_oey
    • I’ve seen it 7 times. I’ll send you a linktoemaas
    • I watched it last night. I get it was probably pioneering in many ways but as a cold watch 80yrs later it was a bit shit TBH. Sorry.Hayzilla
    • "Probably pioneering"? He introduced non-linear narratives, more editing techniques than you can count, was a mise en scene masterpiece.garbage

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