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Title: why do people like this movie?
Review: I have never understood why this movie is consistently rated as the best American film ever made. The cinematography is too dark almost the whole time, making the viewer strain to see faces clearly enough to tell the characters apart. The plot is too psychological to follow without effort, and Kane himself is not a good enough character to justify such effort. I never felt strongly enough about him (either way) to care about anything he does or experiences. Basically I would rate this movie as a pretentious waste of two perfectly good hours.
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