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Citizen Kane (1941): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

8.2IMDb
99%Tomatometer
100Metacritic
8.0TMDB

Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery, drama film directed by Orson Welles. It scores 8.2 on IMDb, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, 100 on Metacritic, 8.0 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 82 while Metacritic critics give it 100, a gap of 18 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 76 films from 1941 in our catalog and number 9 of 716 mystery films.

Billed cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead.

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