Vertigo Reviews
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Justifying Vertigo's poor initial performance, it is a film that requires distance, as well as the completion of Hitchcock's career. It is a moment of acknowledgment in the final, retrospective establishment of the director's frequent themes.
Montreal Film Journal
This is one of the single most masterful pictures ever made.
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| Original Score: 4/4
ToxicUniverse.com
What a perverse little gem this is.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Variety
Top CriticJames Stewart, on camera almost constantly, comes through with a startlingly fine performance as the lawyer-cop who suffers from acrophobia.
SPLICEDWire
Alfred Hitchcock's control of the audience is most complete in Vertigo.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Vertigo (1958) is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most powerful, deep, and stunningly beautiful films (in widescreen 70 mm VistaVision) - it is a film noir
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The most-discussed work of the master; despairingly sardonic and demanding of multiple viewings.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Internet Reviews
The ending of the show is perfect and shocking if you have never seen it before.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Empire Magazine
Picture yourself on a rollercoaster at the highest peak of its circuit.
Apollo Guide
Vertigo is a fine film, but it's not flawless.
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| Original Score: 90/100
Do yourself an aesthetic favor: Take the plunge.
Boxoffice Magazine
With this masterfully conceived spine-tingler, Alfred Hitchcock once again affirms his standing as movieland's king of the suspense-drama
One of the things that still amazes me about this movie is the way its study of obsession is so single-minded.
It is about how Hitchcock used, feared and tried to control women.
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| Original Score: 4/4
From a craft standpoint, Vertigo represents the director in peak form.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
With less playfulness and much more overt libido than other Hitchcock classics, Vertigo was always anomalous.
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| Original Score: 5/5
