Citizen Kane was voted the best movie ever in polls of critics.
":100The day following the premiere of Citizen Kane, The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote that "
:152In the decades since, its critical status as one of the greatest films ever made has grown, with numerous essays and books on it including Peter Cowie's The Cinema of Orson Welles, Ronald Gottesman's Focus on Citizen Kane, a collection of significant reviews and background pieces, and most notably Kael's essay, "Raising Kane", which promoted the value of the film to a much wider audience than it had reached before

