SOURCE: Kerr, Philip. “A Land of Lost Content.” New Statesman 132, no. 4623 (3 February 2003): 44.

In the following review, Kerr offers a positive assessment of Catch Me If You Can, lauding the film as a “wonderfully subtle re-creation of a more innocent time in America.”

If you were looking for a visual metaphor to explain Steven Spielberg, you couldn't do better than Rosebud, the sled owned by the young Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane. On one level, it was a device to pull the story along; and on another, it was symbolic of a lost innocence of the kind that A E Housman was referring to in “A Shropshire Lad”. Rosebud is explicitly evocative of a “land of lost content” and “happy highways where I went and cannot come again”. All of which helps to explain why Spielberg once paid ＄55,000 for the Rosebud used in Welles's movie, and why it...