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

...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

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

| Sep 27, 2018

One of the director's most laughably dated films.

| Original Score: C | May 4, 2005

Not to be speechless about it, David O. Selznick has a rare film in Spellbound.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000