Orson Welles’s classic now has a 99 per cent score – meaning that
Paddington 2, with 100 per cent, has surpassed
Citizen Kane as the “better” movie.
The live-action sequel quickly became a fan-favourite when it was released in 2017. The children’s film, starring Hugh Grant and Sally Hawkins, also received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics.
In addition to
Citizen Kane on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Arson Welles’s Citizen Kane, widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made, has lost its 100 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes after the review aggregator website added a negative review from 80 years ago.
The negative review, published by the Chicago Tribune on May 7, 1941, was the 116th review of the film on the website and became the one to ruin the perfect score of the film.
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The Tribune’s negative Citizen Kane review was published under the pseudonym “Mae Tinee” and accompanied with the headline “Citizen Kane Fails to Impress Critic as Greatest Ever Filmed”, reported IndieWire. The review was published a few days after the film first started rolling out into theatres in 1941.
Citizen Kane Loses 100% Fresh Score on Rotten Tomatoes Thanks to 80-Year-Old Review
Citizen Kane Loses 100% Fresh Score on Rotten Tomatoes Thanks to 80-Year-Old Review
Citizen Kane now has a 99% Fresh rating after an 80-year-old negative review was added to Rotten Tomatoes.
Citizen Kane is no longer the perfect movie, at least according to Rotten Tomatoes. As the
Orson Welles classic is universally acclaimed and widely considered to be among the greatest movies of all time, it s long held a perfect 100% Certified Fresh score on the review aggregator website. After Rotten Tomatoes recently added a negative 80-year-old review to the 115 positive reviews, the score has since dropped to 99%.