Those who love a good mystery, suspense...will...find many things to like in this film. Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck team-up to deliver a memorable romance, and the dedicated supporting cast...shine in their equally majestic roles.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

Memorable for its stylistic flourishes...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2023

The unwary spectator who finds himself relaxed in the restful darkness of a motion picture theater, is going to be let in for shock.

| Jun 15, 2023

A fascinating, grim, exciting motion picture, based on the currently popular interest in psychiatry, and illustrating a new method of crime detection. It is a "whodunit" (the current name for mystery dramas) raised to a de luxe intellectual plane.

| Dec 31, 2020

Bergman and Peck are sensationally convincing as unlikely romancers in a feverish setting.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 15, 2020

...beneath the facile trappings there is an intriguing Hitchcockian study of role reversal, with doctors and patients, men and women, mothers and sons inverting their assigned relationships with compelling, subversive results.

| Oct 5, 2019

A twisty thriller in the best Hitchcockian tradition, even if it may be a minor work in comparison to some of his more popular successes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Today this seems above all a forward-thinking portrait of a woman battling for authority in a man's world.

| Sep 27, 2018

...a rare misfire within Hitch's otherwise solid body of work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2015

I don't agree with her much, but Pauline Kael was right about this one.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 28, 2012

It may not be first-rank Hitchcock, but even second-tier Hitchcock is better than what most other directors produce.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 16, 2012

Made in an age when master shots often became a standard scene style, Hitchcock shows some real thought behind his composition.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2012

A commercial and critical hit in its day, this Best Picture Oscar nominee has seen its standing slip in the ensuing decades, as it's never mentioned on any list of Alfred Hitchcock's best works. That's a shame.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 25, 2012

It has a lot of great stuff, not least of which is the odd dream sequence, designed by none other than Salvador Dali.

| Feb 13, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2007

Uneven film, with fascinating dream images.

| Aug 22, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2005

One of Hollywood's most explicit films about psychoanalysis, Spellbound takes a dubious and contrived approach to the subject, but the stars (Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck)shine and their love story is enjoyable.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 6, 2005

One of the director's most laughably dated films.

| Original Score: C | May 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 10, 2004