many a moon

Chief among them is Simon Bennebjerg’s De Schinkel, the most loathsome movie villain in many a moon.

Splashing down in the Pacific to end the 11-day mission, Duke found himself facing a question that confronted many a moon walker: “Well, what are you going to do now, with the rest of your life?”

The most mercurial movie heroine in many a moon — rivaled only by “Licorice Pizza’s” Alana Kane, another young woman allowed to be her gloriously drifty, unruly, undetermined self — Julie is nothing if not a creature of impulse, someone who finds her equilibrium by keeping everyone off-balance.

And then, at the end comes a big surprise that is the most shamelessly sentimental moment seen at the movies in many a moon.

“In spite of some disconcerting lapses and strange ambiguities in the creation of the principal character,” the critic Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times after attending the film’s 1941 premiere at the Palace Theater, “‘Citizen Kane’ is far and away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture to be seen here in many a moon.”