Vertigo Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Hitchcock's most tender story.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A haunting meditation on sexual politics, romantic love, and obsession, Vertigo is one of the greatest surreal movies ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Must-see Hitchcock thriller for any classic movie bug.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

"Vertigo" is Alfred Hitchcock's beautifully stylized psychological thriller about a man in love with a fetishized romantic fantasy invented by another man.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

Technically well made, but there are a plethora of more entertaining Hitchcock films available.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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...

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a disturbing and darkly revealing psychological thriller

Full Review | Original Score: 84/100

One of the landmarks--not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century art.

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After it, Psycho and the rest of the '60s are only a bitter précis of this thesis of sexual disassociation and identity politics.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Why is this movie Hitchcock's masterpiece? Because no movie plunges us more deeply into the dizzying heart of erotic obsession.

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The "Vertigo" shot created for this film was so powerful and unique that everytime I see it used today, I get teary eyed.

| Original Score: 5/5

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.

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Hitchcock was elsewhere an entertainer, often a great one, but Vertigo finds him working as an artist...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Alfred Hitchcock at his most disturbing.

Full Review | Original Score: A

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Slow but totally compelling.

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Hitchcock's twisty, suspenseful tale is far more involving and memorable than most recent Hollywood thrillers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

What can one say? Exquisitely controlled, framed, scored, acted, and edited. A peerless triumph.

| Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 5/5