These days, everybody’s a critic. See what the discerning critics of Amazon have to say about AFI’s “Top Ten Greatest Movies of All Time.”
Citizen Kane, “Almost as bad… as Annie Hall.”
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
Top critic review: Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly (May 1, 1991):
“Fifty years after its release, Citizen Kane still seems richer, bolder, more spectacularly alive than any other film of the studio-system era. Regardless of how many times you've seen Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece, it always feels like the first time.”
The Godfather, “The only good thing about this film is the music.”
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
Top critic review: Vincent Canby, The New York Times (March 16, 1972):
“Francis Ford Coppola has made one of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment.”
Casablanca, “Corrupt movie used by seducing spirits (demons) to lead the world to hell.”
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Top critic review: Bosley Crowther, The New York Times (Nov. 27, 1942):
“Yes, indeed, the Warners here have a picture which makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap... They have used Mr. Bogart's personality, so well established in other brilliant films, to inject a cold point of tough resistance to evil forces afoot in Europe today. And they have so combined sentiment, humor and pathos with taut melodrama and bristling intrigue that the result is a highly entertaining and even inspiring film.”
Raging Bull, “I found it very amateurish… sunk with the weight of its own pretensions.”
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Top Critic review: Amy Taubin, The Village Voice (Aug. 1, 2000):
“The film's claim to greatness lies in Scorsese's devastating critique of the very codes of masculinity that shaped him as a filmmaker, and in Robert De Niro's performance, through which that critique is made flesh.”
