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- 1942
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
- 1942
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
Summary The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Directed By: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
Written By: Booth Tarkington, Joseph Cotten, Jack Moss, Orson Welles
- 1942
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
- 1942
- Approved
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
The Magnificent Ambersons
8.0
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Summary The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Directed By: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
Written By: Booth Tarkington, Joseph Cotten, Jack Moss, Orson Welles
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
93
94% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Welles's second great masterpiece.
The Magnificent Ambersons is still masterly. It’s the movie that all other films about families in decline are measured against.
An elegiac saga of the decline and fall of a rich small-town American family, based on a Booth Tarkington novel.
The Magnificent Ambersons is a pretty sensational movie. The film language is more fluid and adept than Kane‘s, the expressionist lighting is more rigorously modulated.
The bold cinematic techniques Welles employed in Citizen Kane are put to even more sophisticated use here.
Ambersons is not another Citizen Kane, but it is good enough to remove Director Welles for keeps from the novice or one-picture-prodigy class.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
