25 Definitively Best Movies EVER (According To Critics AND Fans)

15. Citizen Kane (1941)

Score: 92

For a long time, Citizen Kane was basically considered the greatest movie of all time, which is a stunning achievement by any rights, but for it to come from a first-time film-maker who also wrote, produced and starred in it is simply phenomenal. But then they don't make them like Orson Welles any more either.

Kane is everything you'd want to see from a truly great film: the story (based on the lives of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer - with the former characteristically reacting VERY badly to it) is compelling, Welles is mesmerising as Kane and everything from a technical point of view (particularly the cinematography) is brilliant.

Despite the fact that it was made more than 70 years ago, in the Trump age, it's still remarkably pertinent.

Rotten Tomatoes: 100 Audience: 90 IMDB: 84 Letterboxd: 86 Metascore: 100