Vertigo (1958)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:50
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: VERTIGO is Alfred Hitchcock's haunting tale of deception, madness, and death--a masterful exploration of fantasy and anxiety. The film ranks with REAR WINDOW as one of the director's most closely... [More]
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Reviews for Vertigo
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Slow but totally compelling. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Pure Hitchcock. Full Review |
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Picture yourself on a rollercoaster at the highest peak of its circuit. Full Review |
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It may not be as funny or light as the best known of Hitchcock’s work but this is certainly a classic largely because of it’s impressively unlikeable, intense characters so at odds with Hitch’s trademark Hollywood glamour films of the same time. Full Review |
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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... Full Review |
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84/100 |
a disturbing and darkly revealing psychological thriller Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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One of the landmarks--not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century art. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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 |
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Why is this movie Hitchcock's masterpiece? Because no movie plunges us more deeply into the dizzying heart of erotic obsession. Full Review |
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5/5 |
The "Vertigo" shot created for this film was so powerful and unique that everytime I see it used today, I get teary eyed.
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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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Hitchcock was elsewhere an entertainer, often a great one, but Vertigo finds him working as an artist... Full Review |
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Alfred Hitchcock at his most disturbing. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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 |
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4/4 |
Hitchcock's twisty, suspenseful tale is far more involving and memorable than most recent Hollywood thrillers. Full Review |
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5/5 |
What can one say? Exquisitely controlled, framed, scored, acted, and edited. A peerless triumph.
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5/5 |
Often imitated, never duplicated.
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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. Full Review |
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