Courtesy Everett Collection; Netflix When you think of “Citizen Kane,” considered by many critics to be the greatest movie ever made, one name comes to mind: Orson Welles. That towering auteur ...

"Citizen Kane," which celebrates its 80th birthday May 1, is the Muhammad Ali of movies. The Greatest. You can argue otherwise — just as you can argue that Lincoln isn't the greatest president ...

After an 80-year-old pan resurfaced, the website Rotten Tomatoes recalculated and found that only 99 percent of critics had praised “Citizen Kane.” By Sarah Bahr There is perfect. And then ...

United Archives GMBH / Alamy When Citizen Kane premiered on May 1, 1941, it wasn’t at some historic Hollywood theater, or even at one of New York’s fancy movie houses. Instead, the film ...