The last time Alfred Hitchcock delivered a big success of a film with stars on the marquee and an A-lister behind the typewriter.

| Jan 8, 2025

One of Hitchcock’s crowning achievements, North By Northwest remains as fun as ever and serves as the finest example of a genre it helped to create.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 8, 2025

Everything comes together just right in this Alfred Hitchcock gem.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 23, 2024

In spite of a few flaws, North by Northwest remains an unqualified triumph. It’s got some of the best humor, dark and otherwise, in any Hitchcock film and it never lags for a second of its run time.

| Original Score: A | Jul 25, 2024

A splashy adventure...a precursor for the kind of jet-setting, debonair intrigue that would become ubiquitous...

| Sep 22, 2023

The plotting is tightly wound and the thrills are executed with devilish panache.

| Aug 29, 2022

It’s lighter, flashier, and more stylish than some of Hitch’s other classics, but those are the things that make it a unique but fitting part of Hitchcock’s wonderful filmography.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

It is consistently entertaining, its excitement pointed by but never interrupted by the jokes... But it is on Mr. Grant's own performance, intent, resourceful, witty, as always beautifully timed, that a large part of the pleasure depends.

| Aug 10, 2022

Though not as cleverly original as Strangers on a Train, or as cleverly sexy as Notorious, this is one of Hitchcock’s most entertaining American thrillers.

| Jul 6, 2022

North by Northwest distills Alfred Hitchcock's obsessions, techniques, and themes into a singular, deliriously entertaining form.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Alfred Hitchcock's new thriller, North by Northwest, is one of those no holds barred films. For better than two hours, he lets the Technicolor melodrama ramble across the VistaVision screen while gleefully setting traps for his hero.

| Jun 9, 2021

On all counts, North by Northwest is Hitchcock's best picture in recent years.

| Jun 9, 2021

[North by Northwest] gives Grant full play in the sort of role he does best -- and has the added virtue of being done by the master of suspense.

| Jun 9, 2021

This is a classic thriller, slick as ice and about as exciting as you can stand.

| Jun 9, 2021

Relax and enjoy it -- North by Northwest is elegant, in color escape entertainment.

| Jun 9, 2021

The brilliant director has outdone himself by piling thrill on thrill for the delectation of an enraptured audience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 9, 2021

You get a lot of entertainment for your money. You get a couple of clever, sophisticated screen actors and an elegant actress with a fine-drawn, exciting face. You get one scene that will be talked about as long as people talk about films at all.

| Jun 9, 2021

The acting in North by Northwest has that brilliant, cool surface that represents the perfect polish for the best of Hitchcock. Grant, to be sure, is the director's Number 1 hand at this sort of thing. Mason, nevertheless, comes close to matching him.

| Jun 8, 2021

Very little of it makes sense, but no matter. From the moment Mr. Cary Grant, a Madison Avenue advertising man, is kidnaped by a band of foreign agents who think he's someone else, North By Northwest stays on a rollercoaster that operates on laughing gas.

| Jun 8, 2021

Grant's technique, so well established, shines brightly under Hitchcock's guidance. The two seem completely en rapport in movie making. Miss Saint, effective in her former sweet or drab roles, makes the switch to glamour as a lovely Mata Hari type.

| Jun 8, 2021