Smooth and suspenseful, it’s a handsome and elegant romantic thriller and Hitchcock creates suspense from simple sequences with ominous angles and lighting.

| Apr 26, 2025

While few would consider Suspicion the best Hitchcock-Grant joint project -- most would say North By Northwest, I would say Notorious, and probably nobody would say To Catch a Thief (pleasant as it is) -- it’s a decent thriller in its own right.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2025

Suspicion is not the best of the Alfred Hitchcock/Cary Grant films and despite the film's ending, it's still in the upper tier of the Hitchcock's filmography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2023

The Master of Suspense definitely knows how to pick a winning project; delusion and coincidence turn out to be incredibly powerful tools in his hands.

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

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock delivers a slow-moving yet consistently watchable drama that boasts brief instances of thriller-like plot twists...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2020

A magnificent triumph in terms of direction and acting. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 10, 2019

At times even the audience believes as the woman does. At other times doubt intrudes. This is where Suspicion shines as especially deft and adroit, and loyal also to Hitchcock precedent for keeping both characters and spectators guessing.

| Apr 20, 2019

Arguably the film's most interesting sidenote is the sense that Hitchcock is sneaking in something of a sly satire of provincial English mores and snobbery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2018

Suspicion is good Alfred Hitchcock-up to the last few minutes. In those final minutes the picture falls apart at the seams.

| Oct 25, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2012

The Hollywood-style happy ending was imposed on Hitchcock by the studio.

| Original Score: B | Jul 6, 2010

Alfred Hitchcock's trademarked cinematic development of suspenseful drama, through mental emotions of the story principals, is vividly displayed in Suspicion.

| Mar 26, 2009

The disappointingly neat coda has led to the dismissal of the film as second-tier Hitchcock, but up to that ending, the critique of marriage is so provocative, the imagery so powerful, and the acting so good that it's extremely enjoyable to watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 6, 2009

Grimly powerful.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 11, 2008

Everyone concedes that this 1941 Hitchcock film is a failure, yet it displays so much artistic seriousness that I find its failure utterly mysterious.

| Feb 11, 2008

Despite a silly cop-out ending (imposed by RKO), a gripping domestic thriller.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2005

Great classic Hitch.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2004

...a middle-tier Hitchcock product, not really as suspenseful as it should be and never as romantic or humorous as it could be.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 9, 2004