Tightly scripted with clockwork precision and garlanded with bon mots: “She’s too perfect, she’s too talented, she’s too beautiful, she’s too sophisticated, she’s too everything but what I want.”

| Jan 8, 2025

Rear Window is magnificent for a multitude of reasons. It has withstood the test of time, and no facet has lost an ounce of effectiveness. As a primer into Hitchcock’s vast, varied, and essential oeuvre, it is the perfect starting point.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 1, 2024

Rear Window may be the best of Hitchcock’s films. It has so many devious moves and machinations, but doesn’t ever leave the single location it’s in.

| Original Score: A | Aug 30, 2024

A clear game of suspense. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2023

Mixing drama, with a bit of dry comedy, and the thriller elements to which Hitchcock had accustomed us, "Rear Window" is one of the best films of his filmography, and an interesting metatextual commentary on voyeurism. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2023

The Oscar-nominated Rear Window isn't just one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films but one of the greatest thrillers ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 20, 2023

Some of the most immaculate filmmaking in Hitchcock's career, which by default makes it some of the most immaculate filmmaking in the history of the medium.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 27, 2023

Perhaps the most elegant and satisfying of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers...

| Aug 29, 2022

It’s straightforward and mysterious at the same time and features characters that are more complex than they appear on the surface.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Psycho may be more daring and thrilling (and ultimately better), and Vertigo certainly has its fans for its unique stylings and deep themes, but Rear Window is the quintessential Hitchcock film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 20, 2022

One of the defining characteristics of Alfred Hitchcocks cinematic oeuvre is his constant need to innovate and iterate on ideas, taking audiences to new and compelling places. Rear Window is not his most ambitious gimmick, but it is his most successful.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Hitchcock has improved on most of his other efforts by giving a depth to the pure action line with the addition of a sincere lose element and a comedy line which runs like a warm current just under the surface of the tension.

| Jun 10, 2021

It's a great movie and it's a chance in a million to see a passionate Grace Kelly... She had so much class it would be easy to overlook that underlying heat which Hitchcock let play in this film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2021

It is taut, exact, well-patterned; technically bang on; never lets the attention go. Hitchcock is a director who has always revelled in contrasts; nothing delights him more than to smother his ice-cream with lashings of hot chocolate sauce.

| Jun 8, 2021

Rear Window builds in a much more linear way, slowly creating tension bit by bit until the chilling final 10 minutes. It takes a long time to get there, but there is literally never a dull moment.

| Jun 8, 2021

Sure, Vertigo is more personal, Psycho more bizarre, North by Northwest more thrilling. But Rear Window shows the Master of Suspense at his most spare, sophisticated and sinisterly clever a movie that is essentially about watching movies.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2021

The most densely allegorical of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces, moving from psychology to morality to formal concerns and finally to the theological. It is also Hitchcock's most innovative film in terms of narrative technique.

| Jun 8, 2021

This is Alfred Hitchcock at his best -- a hugely entertaining, romantic and witty film with just a touch of mayhem.

| Jun 8, 2021

Hitchcock condemned the invasive immorality of voyeurism without for a second denying its allure. In terms of art and entertainment, he knew better than any movie director that there's no percentage in minding your own business.

| Jun 8, 2021

Rear Window works as well today as it did when Alfred Hitchcock made it in 1954. Since none of his legion of imitators can match the master's touch, Rear Window is a cultural reference point against which to recalibrate our critical standards.

| Jun 8, 2021