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The old master, now a slave to television, has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares.
One of the landmarks--not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century art.
Why is this movie Hitchcock's masterpiece? Because no movie plunges us more deeply into the dizzying heart of erotic obsession.
James Stewart, on camera almost constantly, comes through with a startlingly fine performance as the lawyer-cop who suffers from acrophobia.
There is a glumness to the film that is notably missing from the director's other films of the period.
One of the things that still amazes me about this movie is the way its study of obsession is so single-minded.
Hitchcock's rich and strange fable of love lost, and lost again, makes the case for him as a grand experimental artist who labored in genre cinema.
Hitchcock's most tender story.
A haunting meditation on sexual politics, romantic love, and obsession, Vertigo is one of the greatest surreal movies ever made.
Must-see Hitchcock thriller for any classic movie bug.
"Vertigo" is Alfred Hitchcock's beautifully stylized psychological thriller about a man in love with a fetishized romantic fantasy invented by another man.
Technically well made, but there are a plethora of more entertaining Hitchcock films available.
Vertigo is a kind of consummate illusion--tantalizing for being so often out of reach (DVDs don't match the reel deal), fulfilling only for bringing us as close as possible to Hitchcock's head and heart in Frisco circa '58. Or...
a disturbing and darkly revealing psychological thriller
After it, Psycho and the rest of the '60s are only a bitter précis of this thesis of sexual disassociation and identity politics.
The "Vertigo" shot created for this film was so powerful and unique that everytime I see it used today, I get teary eyed.
Vertigo is an acknowledged masterpiece, one of those narrative films in which a bracing and unpredictable story has been distilled into a form that is at once classic and inventive.
Hitchcock was elsewhere an entertainer, often a great one, but Vertigo finds him working as an artist...
Alfred Hitchcock at his most disturbing.
A rich, resonant meditation of male romantic obsession ... Not only does Hitchcock demonstrate a total mastery of cinematic point-of-view, but he turns what might have been mere melodrama into film poetry. Perhaps his greatest film.
Slow but totally compelling.
Hitchcock's twisty, suspenseful tale is far more involving and memorable than most recent Hollywood thrillers.
What can one say? Exquisitely controlled, framed, scored, acted, and edited. A peerless triumph.
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