Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Citizen Kane loses 100% "Fresh" rating after 80-year-old negative review added to Rotten Tomatoes

Citizen Kane, the Orson Welles classic often hailed as the greatest movie of all time, slipped from 100% to 99% on Rotten Tomatoes' "Tomatometer" sometime between Feb 25 and April 15 this year. The site added a negative review to the 115 positive ones already there—one published 80 years ago by the Chicago Tribune's Mae TinĂ©e, a collective pseudonym then used by the paper's film critics. — Read the rest