a true labour of love, an homage in such deliriously infatuated thrall to its inspiration that it seems more arthouse folly than studio cashcow - or, to cite the psychiatrist near the end of Psycho, "these were crimes of passion, not profit."

Full Review | Oct 22, 2012

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Contains nothing to outrage or offend partisans of the original, yet neither does it stand to add much to their appreciation.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

Hitchcock probably wouldn't tell this story if he was making films today, and he certainly wouldn't tell it this way, with internal 'voices', back projection, minimal nudity and violence.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 12, 2002

So much of Van Sant's 'new' version of the classic remains the same that you sit there shaking your head, mumbling, why, oh, why?

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It remains the most structurally elegant and sneakily playful of thrillers!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Van Sant clearly knows that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and his own smooth touch is neatly sympathetic with his predecessor's.

| Jan 1, 2000

Vaughn and Heche bring energy and freshness to the parts originated by Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Heche is so good, in fact, and so frisky and watchable in her role, that after her grisly demise in the shower you miss her for a long time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The movie is an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless; genius apparently resides between or beneath the shots, or in chemistry that cannot be timed or counted.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

As Norman Bates, Vince Vaughn makes us better appreciate how much Anthony Perkins brought to the original project.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A lot less scary!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The movie lacks the chutzpah to even be a travesty.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Van Sant has cranked up the realism about 20 points, but somehow what he achieves for the effort is a larger sense of banality!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film is polished when it should be edgy and impersonal when it should be seductive.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: A | Dec 4, 1998

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 4, 1998