Notorious has stood the test of time and deserves the labels of both a classic and one of Hitchcock’s most formidable early American productions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2024

Notorious beautifully mixes a love story and espionage with stunning performances from Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the 1946 classic.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 5, 2024

Hitchcock is able to weave locations into scenes in which things actually happen. In the 1950s so many films featured five-minute-long montages in which audiences were bombarded with shots of landmarks in a certain city...

| Feb 9, 2023

The burden on the players is heavy, and credit is due to Ingrid Bergman and in a smaller degree Cary Grant for playing which by shades of facial expression alone indicates the emotional undertones of the narrative.

| Aug 8, 2022

I just did not feel any chemistry between our leads...

| May 17, 2021

Hitchcock's signature, nail-biting suspense ratchets up exponentially by the minute as the plot of uncountable duplicities reveals itself.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 13, 2020

Here Grant's continental accent is used to icy perfection, each clipped word as sharp and vicious as the point of blade.

| Jan 23, 2020

The first love-scene between Miss Bergman and Mr. Grant is the most incandescent interlude ever to reach the screen.

| Oct 22, 2019

Sometimes bleakly humorous, frequently unbearably tense. Bergman and Grant spark off each other perfectly. (4K restoration)

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2019

There are more obviously Hitchcockian films, like the big Technicolor masterpieces he made in the 1950s - Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo - but nothing quite matches the sense of danger Hitchcock found in his stars in Notorious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2019

Hitchcock's most emotionally nuanced and most adult depiction of relationships feels as vital as ever.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 9, 2019

It's completely hypnotic: from the twisting strands of a plot defying us fully to trust anyone, to those Hitchcock specials, the shots and scenes where the camera too is a lethal conspiracist.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2019

The sequence where Grant and Bergman discover Rains' secret in the wine cellar is textbook suspense, and it's easy to see why Hitchcock was the master at this kind of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

A brilliant motion picture that resonates on any number of levels.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 21, 2019

Doesn't carry the cine-psychological virtuosity of Hitchock's best work but still shows his ability to infuse what is essentially hokum material with a superior, gothic feel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

One of the film's greatest ironies is that it is one of the muddiest of Hitchcock's films to interpret.

| Jul 17, 2017

It would be far too harsh to label Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious an all-out bomb, but it's equally difficult to refer to the movie as a wholeheartedly effective (and affecting) success.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2015

The virtuoso sequences -- the long kiss, the crane shot into the door key -- are justly famous, yet the film's real brilliance is in its subtle and detailed portrayal of infinitely perverse relationships.

| Aug 5, 2014

This dark romantic thriller isn't as thematically complex or technically audacious as some of Alfred Hitchcock's later classics. But it's still hard to beat for pure, polished entertainment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2014

Notorious is in the world of film noir but not of it; it's a tough and dark film that's also one of the finest women's pictures ever made.

| Aug 5, 2014