Vertigo Reviews

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.

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Must-see Hitchcock thriller for any classic movie bug.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

It is about how Hitchcock used, feared and tried to control women.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

From a craft standpoint, Vertigo represents the director in peak form.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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

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

| Original Score: 5/5

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

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+

Everything is perfect in Vertigo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Vertigo is Hitchcock's stirring parable of love and death.

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Jimmy Stewart never did finer work, and Hitchcock's masterpiece, though its meaning may be lost on many, reveals a man at his most obsessed.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Slow but totally compelling.

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

| Original Score: 5/5

Alfred Hitchcock's control of the audience is most complete in Vertigo.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

What a perverse little gem this is.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Alfred Hitchcock at his most disturbing.

Full Review | Original Score: A

a disturbing and darkly revealing psychological thriller

Full Review | Original Score: 84/100

Do yourself an aesthetic favor: Take the plunge.

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