Hello, welcome to the Citizen Kane episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

I'm Felix Salmon 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 40mm 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 this show to talk about.

So, and Kaine, welcome Ben Smith.

Thank you so much for having me out.

Ben, who are you?

And what is your relationship to the press and press magnates?

Oh, 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,

we'll see how little I know about movies.

And, yes, used to run BuzzFeed.

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 inflicting French art house movies on your 14-year-old daughter. We will talk about

where Kane stands as like a movie as an art house movie, but of course, mostly we're going

to talk about Kane as a character, this whole idea of media moguls, whether it stands

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