A middling potboiler that suffers from being dubbed and full of holes so wide you can drive a Ferrari through them.

| Sep 27, 2022

A certain amount of ingenuity lifts The Bird with the Crystal Plumage above the run-of-the-mill murder mystery.

| Sep 27, 2022

Dario Argento has indeed whipped up a creeper to send chills up and down the spine.

| Sep 27, 2022

This Italian Hitchcock keeps the tension high, a taut suspense that grabs the viewer, and an effective atmosphere of menace and horror.

| Sep 26, 2022

Enough to make you clutch your partner in sheer delightful fright.

| Sep 26, 2022

Dario Argento displays such authority and imagination he makes the formula seem fresh and thoroughly engrossed.

| Sep 26, 2022

It's all rather contrived and hackneyed, and even a devotee of old-fashioned mystery pictures won't get more than a very routine sort of entertainment from it.

| Sep 26, 2022

It's an engrossing whodunit, which may have more than its share of red herrings, but which generates substantial tension along the way.

| Sep 26, 2022

This film is simply too cold and calculated to be very exciting.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2022

Sadistic but superb.

| Sep 26, 2022

The Mystery plot is about as substantial as soap bubbles and it's hardly mystifying.

| Sep 26, 2022

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a cinematic work of art and a standout effort in the giallo subgenre.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 13, 2021

Argento's scripting isn't always fluid, but he nevertheless manages to create a mystery that's genuinely compelling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2021

It is as though The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is interrogating the different functions performed by graphic portrayals of murder (much like this film itself), and facing viewers with their own cathartic, and possibly dangerous, fears and desires.

| Feb 19, 2018

It's not as colorful as his later masterpieces ... but the way in which Argento plays with composition and point of view here are above and beyond.

| Oct 18, 2017

Future Oscar winner Vittorio Storaro shot the film-it was his first color film and he makes it a showpiece-and Ennio Morricone provides an unusual, often eerie score arranged for human voices.

| Aug 4, 2017

A smart, cosmopolitan, thoroughly modern whodunit comprised of geometric visuals and pulsating sexual violence.

| Oct 6, 2013

A glossy, stylistic, cosmopolitan and jagged mystery firmly entrenched in Hitchcockian paranoia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2013

A watchable serial murderer-search movie, even if not the stuff of cult status.

| Apr 15, 2012

Vivid mayhem

| Nov 15, 2009