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The Magnificent Ambersons
Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!
Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!
Drama, History, Romance - 1942
7.7
89%
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The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
88 min
Release date:
10 Jul 1942
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 4 wins & 4 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The emotional sense of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is so palpable you can taste it.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
6 Apr 2007
rotten:
Orson Welles devotes 9,000 feet of film to a spoiled brat who grows up as a spoiled, spiteful young man. This film hasn't a single moment of contrast; it piles on and on a tale of woe, but without once striking at least a true chord of sentimentality.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Jul 2010
rotten:
While telling this story, haltingly and clumsily, the movie runs from burdensome through heavy and dull to bad. It stutters and stumbles as Welles submerges Tarkington's story in a mess of radio and stage technique.
– Manny Farber,
The New Republic,
30 Aug 2012
fresh:
Although reams have been written about the mutilation of Orson Welles' second feature, what remains of it is nevertheless a major accomplishment.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Aug 2012
fresh:
Even in this truncated form it's amazing and memorable.
– Pauline Kael,
New Yorker,
5 Jan 2015
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