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âCitizen Kaneâ Is No âPaddington 2,â Says Rotten Tomatoes
After an 80-year-old pan resurfaced, the website Rotten Tomatoes recalculated and found that only 99 percent of critics had praised âCitizen Kane.â
Orson Welles in his film “Citizen Kane.”Credit.Hulton Archive/Getty Images
There is perfect. And then there is almost perfect.
And as anyone whoâs ever gotten a 99 percent on a test can tell you, the two are not the same thing.
âCitizen Kane,â the 1941 Orson Welles classic about the rise and fall of the publishing magnate Charles Foster Kane, long had a perfect criticsâ score on the film website Rotten Tomatoes, which had aggregated 115 reviews. Until last month.
Masterpiece Paddington 2 Replaces Citizen Kane as the top-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes
‘PADDINGTON 2’ has replaced ‘CITIZEN KANE’ as the top-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes after
an 80-year old review made it slip from 100% to 99%. pic.twitter.com/kHN2n6Rk7t DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) April 27, 2021
Citizen Kane, which is commonly branded as one of the best films of all time, has slipped from it s 100-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, after a review from 80 years ago was added to the site.
The 1941 now has a 99-percent rating, meaning Paddington 2 has surpassed it to the top spot.
The review was published in The Chicago Tribune on 7 May 1941 titled -