Would have been much better off if it had taken a moment to sit down and decide on its own sensibility... It might have settled on the one, and retained its focus. But it didn't, so it doesn't, and it tells us nothing.

| Sep 4, 2018

If Hitchcock himself was alive today, he'd undoubtedly turn his nose up.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2017

The cod-psychologising is a little clunky but [Helen] Mirren's Mrs Hitch is inspiringly ballsy - with a dollop of the vulnerability that made you sob in The Queen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

The movie hits the beats, but lacks depth.

| Jun 28, 2013

Occasional flair and an A-list cast are simply not enough to carry this erratic origins story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2013

What Gervasi and his scriptwriter John McLaughlin bring to the table are banality and predictability, quintessentially non-Hitchcockian qualities.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2013

A disappointing excursion into movie history.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2013

Unlike Hitchcock's work, it fades from memory almost immediately.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2013

Anthony Hopkins dons the facial flab as Hitch, does the voice well enough and the portly-erect, pontifical stature better.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2013

Give us more, you feel yourself groaning: if anyone can take it, it is an audience that has paid to see a film about Alfred Hitchcock.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2013

Scatty, intriguing but slightly undercooked ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2013

Hitchcock for dummies: brisk, jolly, well-played but oversimplified.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2013

The lovelorn Hitchcock of this film's fantasies would be better off left on the cutting-room floor.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2012

An overly literal idea of the brilliant director, but an entertaining visit to the set of a horror classic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2012

It's easy to toss around words like disturbing, eerie, and violence when Hitchcock is involved, but, turns out, the film version of a portion of his life is enjoyable and surprisingly heartwarming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2012

It's tough work giving good face to an iconic role, yet Johansson manages to show Leigh as a thoughtful professional aware of the interpersonal booby-traps set by her director for his leading ladies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2012

Hopkins has been fitted out prosthetically to resemble Hitchcock and he does a reasonably good job of impersonating him, but it's a foredoomed effort.

| Original Score: C | Nov 30, 2012

It's not exactly a perfect marriage, but Hopkins and Mirren create a funny, exasperated chemistry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2012

Too much of the time "Hitchcock" plays cute and comfortable. It simply lacks weight.

| Original Score: C | Nov 30, 2012

"Hitchcock" is an amusing lark, but the clumsy way it dissects the director is for the birds.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 29, 2012