Citizen Kane loses 100 per cent Rotten Tomatoes rating
'Paddington 2' is now rated the greatest ever film on Rotten Tomatoes after 'Citizen Kane' lost its 100 per cent rating on the review-aggregator website. Orson Welles' 1941 drama - which examines the life and legacy of publishing magnate Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles himself, a character inspired by American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick - held the honour for many years but its rating slipped after a negative review from 80 years ago was added to the site. 'Citizen Kane' - widely considered by critics to ...