This is Hitch doing a fleet, action-packed thriller. His love of set-pieces and landmarks makes the most of London and Holland, where the windmills become a natural location for dangerous business.

| Jan 6, 2024

The film can be seen as more than simply escapism but an entrenched anti-Nazi statement by a seemingly apolitical filmmaker.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 5, 2022

Though suffering from the effect of too many cooks in the writing kitchen, it's a title as filled with plot twists as it is wit, as well as Hitchcock's signature elaborate set pieces.

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

Heavy-handed but still poignant patriotism in this Hitchcock thriller.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2020

The plot's twists and turns are cleverly and wittily maintained, and the supporting cast is impeccably chosen...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2020

The extreme coincidences are slightly more than average for Hitchcock's typically heavily-scrutinized storytelling design.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 5, 2020

One of two films directed by Hitchcock in 1940, Foreign Correspondent was just the beginning of his rise in American cinema.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 28, 2020

Alfred Hitchcock has directed another smash hit.

| Apr 14, 2020

A two-hour demonstration of what movies can be, and so rarely are.

| Aug 9, 2019

...registers most strongly as a piece of anti-isolationist propaganda.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2018

Creative Hitchcock thriller mixes fun, spectacular set pieces and political depth.

| Aug 22, 2014

While Albert Bassermann earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for a somewhat hammy turn, the best performance comes from George Sanders, atypically cast as a fearless and resourceful hero rather than the cads and scoundrels he generally played.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2014

It's such an entertaining film that it's almost possible to forget its didactic agenda, which is certainly part of the point.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 20, 2014

It doesn't always proceed as smoothly as some of Hitchcock's best films, but it is never anything less than grandly entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2014

A fitfully crackerjack picture with astonishing mise-en-scène...some memorable set pieces to take advantage of same, and flashes of Hitchockian wit... [Criterion Blu-ray/DVD]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2014

A showcase of early Hitchcock suspense.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 16, 2011

This film contains one of Hitchcock's most famous set pieces -- an assassination in the rain -- but otherwise remains a second-rate effort, as immensely enjoyable as it is.

| Mar 27, 2009

Story is essentially the old cops-and-robbers. But it has been set in a background of international political intrigue of the largest order.

| Mar 26, 2009

Due to the rapidly changing political context, more writers worked on the script than on any Hitchcock thriller, but end result is satisfying (if not credible), and even Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels acknowledged the movie was a masterpiece.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 20, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2008