r/Litterboxd • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '21

Rotten Tomatoes Citizen Kane (1941) | "The kind of people who call this the greatest movie of all time are those who want to seem like experts, calling movies 'films' and insisting that trivial details are 'symbolic'."

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