Rear Window Reviews
It's one of Alfred Hitchcock's inspired audience-participation films: watching it, you feel titillated, horrified, and, ultimately, purged.
TIME Magazine
Top CriticJust possibly the second most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock.
Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man.
The deliciousness of watching the film as it's intended to be seen is that the big screen gives Rear Window back its claustrophobia.
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
Belatedly, I'm nominating a film from 1954 as the best picture of 2000.
In an impressive oeuvre, Rear Window is arguably the most exquisitely handcrafted feature, because Hitchcock mastered the spatial as well as behavioral coordinates of his chosen universe inch by inch.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Its appeal, which goes beyond that of other, equally masterly Hitchcock works, remains undiminished.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Restored to its original Technicolor grandeur!
The clearest example of a Hitchcock movie that functions on dual levels: It's both mousetrap and abyss.
Surely one of Alfred Hitchcock's best entertainments.
Although it's an intensely intimate film, there's something special about taking your seat in the theater as though you're pulling up right next to L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart).
Rear Window is the epitome of Hollywood class.
Hitchcock combines technical and artistic skills in a manner that makes this an unusually good piece of murder mystery entertainment.
Since the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic is all about the voyeuristic instinct, the better the view, the more sensational the experience.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Rear Window lovingly invests in suspense all through the film, banking it in our memory, so that when the final payoff arrives, the whole film has been the thriller equivalent of foreplay.
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| Original Score: 4/4
