Hello, welcome to the citizen. Hello!

Welcome to the Citizen Kane episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

I'm Felix Simon of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise.

Hello.

It's time to really drag out the big guns here.

This is the 40 millimeter howitzer of movies.

And in order to talk about the movie that everyone seems to think was the greatest

movie ever made in the history of cinema, we have the only person we could possibly invite

on the show to talk about.

Citizen Kane, welcome Ben Smith.

Thank you so much for having me on.

Ben, who are you and what is your relationship to the press and press magnates.

I'm the film critic for the New York Times.

Ben is the most astute observer of contemporary media

and used to run a website you might have heard of called

buzzfeed. I know nothing about movies. I'm the media columnist for the time.

Anyone reading that column and reading when I write about Disney and Netflix will see

how little I know about Disney and Netflix, we'll see how little I know about movies.

And yes, used to run Buzzfood.

But you actually, you have a whole childhood of art house movies in your

background as we will talk about in this episode. You will mention

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