...the film surely remains one of the most memorable and downright essential examples of the slow-burn thriller genre.
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07/29/08
Rear Window (1954)
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Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 55
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Consensus: Hitchcock exerted full potential of suspense in this masterpiece.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (Jimmy Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbors through their open windows across the way in the... [More]
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Reviews for Rear Window
Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man.
02/09/06
An early ad summed up one of the film's enduring appeals: If you don't experience delicious terror, then pinch yourself--you're most probably dead.
10/10/05
The deliciousness of watching the film as it's intended to be seen is that the big screen gives Rear Window back its claustrophobia.
07/21/05
Top Critic Alfred Hitchcock's answer to why he makes films and perhaps his darkest one, both as a romance and as a thriller.
07/03/05
Don't resist the urge -- steal a peek at it now, and be reminded why Hitchcock is still without equal in the clammy thrills department.
05/28/04
Top Critic In the hands of a lesser talent, this might have become a self-conscious stunt, but in Hitchcock's it has the tightly wound perfection of a flawless sonnet or sonata.
04/02/03
One of the most elegant entertainments ever made in Hollywood, and also one of the boldest and most personal of the Hitchcock films -- a work that's almost perverse in its giddy celebration of the thrill of voyeurism.
04/03/02
One of the most profound delights in Hitchcock's masterpiece is the witty, seductive performance Kelly fashions as she slyly campaigns to convince Stewart that, in all her perfection, she's just as 'bad' as Miss Torso.
11/06/01
...see Rear Window, if you haven't already, for [Grace] Kelly's sensual, slo-mo entrance...
04/13/01
...one of Hitchcock's most-successful screen works and an easy recommendation for any DVD library.
03/27/01
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