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

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

| Aug 29, 2022

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

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

As a murder mystery Rear Window will stir follicles to hair-raising activity on the shiniest pate and crimp the locks of any gal who needs a permanent wave.

| Jun 8, 2021

Rear Window is Hitchcock at his best. He tells a thrilling story in an original and tricky manner.

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

Mr. Stewart handles his role with effortless ease, with an excellent assist from Wendell Corey, and the two veterans frequently are a able to infer a great deal with merely an exchange of glances.

| Jun 8, 2021

Adult dialog and excellent performances by the principals make Rear Window exceptionally entertaining.

| Jun 8, 2021

Constantly mounting tension is seen through Stewart's field glasses and telescopic camera lenses as well as the panorama of other people's lives. As usual, Thelma Ritter takes magnificent advantage of her brittle and witty dialogue.

| Jun 8, 2021

The cast is as perfect as everything else about this superior thriller.

| Jun 8, 2021

This is a neat plot, which allows Hitchcock to pile on the tension and keep us sitting on the edge of our seat as the story unfolds crisply, not without a good leavening of humor to contrast with the grisly theme.

| Jun 8, 2021

Another first-class suspense thriller from that old master, Director Alfred Hitchcock.

| Jun 8, 2021

It is indeed a skilful and daring picture but it has the defects of Hitchcock's virtues.

| Jun 7, 2021

The last scenes, in which we learn whether or not the murder was done, are as good as anything in Hitchcock's long list of exciting finishes.

| Jun 7, 2021

Rear Window spares nothing in its build-up and its climax, which it achieves with big decisiveness and it is alive with masterly touches for which its guide and creator is distinguished.

| Jun 7, 2021