Rear Window Reviews
It's one of Alfred Hitchcock's inspired audience-participation films: watching it, you feel titillated, horrified, and, ultimately, purged.
Common Sense Media
Hitchcock masterpiece stars peeping Jimmy Stewart.
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| Original Score: 5/5
AskMen.com
In this brilliant movie about watching the neighbors, Alfred Hitchcock turns the lens on his audience. "We have become a race of Peeping Toms," notes one character not only commenting on Jeff's obsessive voyeurism but also that of the cinematic spectator.
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| Original Score: 94/100
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
As close to 'perfect' as a film is likely to get.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Cinemania
a taut and (verbally) jaunty thriller
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| Original Score: 86/100
TIME Magazine
Top CriticJust possibly the second most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock.
Reel Film Reviews
...the film surely remains one of the most memorable and downright essential examples of the slow-burn thriller genre.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man.
EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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| Original Score: A
The deliciousness of watching the film as it's intended to be seen is that the big screen gives Rear Window back its claustrophobia.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Alfred Hitchcock's answer to why he makes films and perhaps his darkest one, both as a romance and as a thriller.
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| Original Score: A-
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.
| Original Score: 4/4
Christian Science Monitor
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.
Netflix
Restored Hitchcock thriller charms, chills and sparkles.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Window to the Movies
What a great movie.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Goatdog's Movies
A stellar film.
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| Original Score: 5/5
