There is also a sort of sabertoothed gentility that [Hitchcock] greatly relishes, and no one else in the commercial cinema uses savage silence so well.

| Jan 22, 2024

Frenzy is, pound for pound, one of the auteur's greatest achievements.

| Jul 18, 2023

Somewhat lacking for Hitchcock, despite its fascinating deviations from his usual projects.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 29, 2020

Hitchcock's most graphic film is also his most unsettling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 1, 2020

Once a Londoner, always a Londoner. Hitchcock's return to home ground, twenty-two years after Stage Fright, is a remarkable performance in most senses of the word.

| May 13, 2020

By using London, a city that has preserved a tradition of citizen safety and civilization, as the background, Hitchcock creates a sharp tension between the city and the rapist-strangler who is running loose.

| May 13, 2020

In case there was any doubt, back in the dim days of Marnie and Topaz, Hitchcock is still in fine form. Frenzy is the dazzling proof.

| May 13, 2020

Armed with a superior script by Anthony Shaffer, an excellent cast, and a top technical crew, Alfred Hitchcock fashions a firstrate melodrama about an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex-strangulation murders.

| May 13, 2020

Hitchcock's penultimate film deals with many of his previous themes with typical grim comedy and insight into a psychopathic killer's mind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2020

There's no sign of the serenity and settledness that generally mark the end of a career. Frenzy, instead, continues to question and probe, and there is a streak of sheer anger in it that seems shockingly alive.

| May 13, 2020

While some regard this as inferior fare, it remains an unsettling piece from a director in his twilight years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2020

Alfred Hitchcock's best suspense film in over a decade.

| Jan 16, 2020

There is a thorough sense of entertainment boiling over the pot here, and the material is well acted, skillful, and photographed with intensity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 1, 2014

Frenzy marked 3 kinds of return for Hitchcock: return to England after 20 years, return to form after some flops, and return to the kind of commercial film he's most clearly associated with.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 22, 2012

Hitchcock's first British film in almost two decades marked a smashing return to his earlier form.

| May 20, 2009

This is one of Hitchcock's best and least appreciated films, with the Master getting a creative boost after a minor slump.

| Oct 18, 2008

Middle of the road Hitch but still terrific.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2007

Rather than classic Hitchcock, Frenzy feels more like a lesser director's cookie-cutter 'Hitchcockian' knock-off.

| Jun 27, 2006

Frenzy is easily the strongest of the master's final works.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2006

Hitchcock's return to Covent Garden, 'wrong man' plotting, the neuroses of sexual immaturity, and black-humoured slapstick ironies, tied up neatly in Anthony Shaffer's screenplay from the novel by Arthur Le Bern.

| Jan 26, 2006