The journey is often amusing and sometimes nerve-wracking. Either way, it is not to be missed.

| Oct 6, 2023

Family Plot is a confection: a sugared almond, from the heart whose kernel the tiny capsule of traditional poison is unaccountably missing. Billed as diabolical, the film is in fact benign to the point of all-out merriment.

| Oct 6, 2023

It shows the Master of Suspense back in top form, and he keeps us laughing all the way to the unexpected ending.

| May 9, 2023

It is a grand entertainment in the grand tradition, the dialogue as sprightly as the pace, the giggles as frequent as the gasps, the scene as realistic as the action, the people as credible as the plot.

| Aug 8, 2022

Family Plot proves what some of us have long suspected: namely, that deep down the "diabolical" old "master of suspense," Alfred Hitchcock, is really an irrepressible clown.

| May 26, 2020

If this is Hitchcock's last film, he couldn't have left us on a more confident and mischievously inventive note.

| May 12, 2020

If Family Plot is not the perfectly structured film, it remains a gem from the master of wry suspense.

| May 12, 2020

If this film had been made by a director other than Alfred Hitchcock, the expectations may not have been as high. Such is the price of years of success. Family Plot, while not up to those usual standards, is still crackling good cinema.

| May 12, 2020

Out of respect for Hitchcock's stature, and his years, Family Plot should be considered as fleetingly as possible.

| May 12, 2020

Hitchcock's final picture is not one of the classics but has many of the elements that made him great.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2020

[A] small masterpiece, one of Hitchcock's most adventurous and expressive experiments in narrative form.

| May 12, 2020

A marvellously fluid light comedy with scarcely a slack moment.

| Mar 17, 2020

The movie is a gentle trifle, a pleasant diversion from a man who knows what he's doing every step of the way.

| Nov 15, 2019

Family Plot is at times a pure mechanical construction, an endless game where the different actions and protagonists intertwine without gaining something. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2019

The best movie Hitchcock has made since North by Northwest.

| Apr 4, 2018

Inventive, often underrated thriller.

| Sep 13, 2017

A rolling boil of sex and violence beneath the bland surfaces of suburban placidity.

| Oct 21, 2013

As the impromptu coda to not only Hitchcock's fifty-year career but also his critically disharmonious late period, which finds some of his most political and under-appreciated work, Family Plot concludes ingeniously, with a wink.

| Dec 20, 2011

Hitchcock's last (53rd) film is a post-modern, self-reflexive work, which deserves a more serious look and better grade than granted by many critics.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 25, 2011

It's the perfect crime picture.

| Original Score: A | Aug 25, 2010