A Hitchcock melodrama that starts off with a certain psychological suspense as it builds its mystery with a solid performance by Tippi Hedren, but which, strangely, becomes hopelessly dull. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 9, 2025

There are many evil twinges of perception in the film, both in the dialogue and in the direction, for Hitch at his most coarse is still an alert manipulator, but he has made far better melodramas than this.

| Mar 6, 2024

The compelling, well-constructed narrative is a showcase of contradictions, not all of them deliberate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2023

A sinister, unpleasant picture, yet you can’t stop thinking about it. When the movie’s over you want to take a shower, and then talk about it some more.

| Feb 14, 2023

Marnie is Alfred Hitchcock's forty-ninth film. It might be the most perfectly tooled yet.

| Apr 28, 2020

It is a film of such complexity that, after three viewings, I feel that I have hardly begun to understand it, but each time, new layers of meaning have revealed themselves.

| Apr 28, 2020

Hitchcock's elegant cinematic style, evident here and there, seems wasted in a melange of banal dialogue, obtrusively phony process shots, and a plot that congeals more often than it thickens.

| Apr 28, 2020

Calmer reflection has established this as one of Hitchcock's more fascinating "misfires."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2020

Marnie is Hitchcock's darkest work. The director's vicious trip through the mind of a disturbed woman offers little in the way of respite, but captures the attention through intrigue, and the sheer filmmaking abilities of the master of suspense.

| Apr 28, 2020

I think the main thematical implication of Hitchock's [Marnie] is exactly that. The constant confusing morality of leaving the viewers take control as he himself hasn't got it under his spell.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2020

Strange, richly told tale, full of echoes of Hitchcock themes.

| Sep 13, 2017

Psychologically resonant, visually transcendent ...

| Sep 21, 2015

Hitchcock was criticised for bring shallow psychology into the film (Hedren's character is afraid of the colour red) but some of their exchanges - the film was based on a novel by Winston Graham - are sharp and droll.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2014

A farsighted yet unassuming thriller with brilliant desires to deconstruct a human mind.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 7, 2014

professionally crafted film that focuses primarily on character development

| Original Score: B | Jan 2, 2013

Unfortunately, Marnie was released right after the masterpiece The Birds and comparisons were inevitable, but there's so much to admire about this work, textually, dramatically, visually.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 11, 2012

A worthwhile watch for anyone who's ever enjoyed Hitchcock, but by comparison with his better known stuff it's an example style overtaking substance.

| Mar 20, 2012

This remains a compelling Hitchcock thriller but it's Tippi Hedron's remarkable central performance which steals the show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2012

A masterpiece of psychological mystery that encompasses all of the director's obsessions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2012

Universally despised on its first release, Marnie remains one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest and darkest achievements.

| Mar 20, 2012