Citizen Kane
‘Rosebud’.
Also Touch of Evil and The Third Man.
I have to disagree, but do it nicely.
CK had some technical issues, dealing with sound and camera angles that were the first of their kind. They probably look cliche now, but the movie was not overrated—in the context of the impact it had on the “art” of filmmaking.
I don’t understand people who say that “Citizen Kane” may be influential technically, but it’s not an enjoyable movie to watch. I’ve seen it many times, and it’s one of my top five movies. If I’m flipping around and land on it, I can’t turn it off. It’s just one great scene or line of dialogue after another. And the story of seeing the girl with the parasol on the ferry 40 years before, never meeting her, but thinking about her every day since, is the type of thing that maybe you have to have some years on you, like I do, to really appreciate.
For most overrated, though, I agree with “Lost In Translation.” I’d throw in “Close Encounters” (fell asleep the first time I tried to sit through that), plus “The English Patient,” “Chariots of Fire,” “Gandhi,” and just about any other high-toned, three-hour, slow-moving epic whose intention wasn’t to entertain audiences but to make Hollywood feel good about itself for showering it with Oscars.