...an astonishing film that doesn’t lose its power upon repeated viewings.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 1, 2025

'Peeping Tom' is an interesting predecessor for many subgenres we know and love. There are moments when the camera work is stunning and the film has so much to unpack that it's worth a few rewatches.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2024

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger together created films of unusual conceptual ambition and high style for UK cinema...

| Aug 30, 2024

There have been many movies suggesting that filmgoers are by nature voyeurs -- Hitchcock himself made a masterpiece in this vein with Rear Window -- but few have been as damning as Peeping Tom.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2024

Michael Powell’s elegant and disturbing Peeping Tom turns its camera eye on an unhealthy obsession with all things cinematic.

| May 24, 2024

A movie like no other ... Powell has no interest in assuaging the audience’s feelings or letting them know it’s all right and everything will be fine.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 9, 2024

Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colorful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities ...

| Apr 6, 2024

Here voyeurism itself looks outwards and inwards, confounding perpetrator and victim, filmmaker and viewer, camera and phallic weapon, while observing a pathology as metacinematic as it is psychiatric.

| Jan 10, 2024

It’s a horror classic of the highest order, a piece of master filmmaking by an iconic artist at the top of his game.

| Dec 9, 2023

The film remains dangerous and brilliant...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2023

A feverish cult object among horror acolytes and classic film buffs alike.

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 24, 2022

[Michael Powell] did not write Peeping Tom; but he cannot wash his hands of responsibility for this essentially vicious film.

| Aug 10, 2022

A masterclass in filmmaking that puts a sociopath in a sympathetic light. Uncomfortable but compelling, Peeping Tom is not to be missed.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 30, 2022

This proto-slasher film is making fascinating observations about class, nationality and gender, but it's so well integrated it never feels heavy handed. Powell's meta shooting style is inspired and Vivian Shearer makes a big impression in only 2 scenes.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 25, 2022

Mark who is the peeping tom in this situation is probably up there with one of the most complex characters in cinema.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 26, 2020

Directed by Michael Powell with British Anarchy ... crazy but exquisitely reserved. Recognized now as one of his greatest films, a primer for the use of the camera as an eye and point of view. We are all voyeurs when we watch a movie

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 16, 2020

Almost all who act as voyeurs in their love of cinema will never hurt another person- not fatally, anyway. That doesn't mean we aren't irreparably altered by our voyeurism.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 1, 2019

A timeless and sublime masterpiece that presents an incredibly intelligent and moving picture of psychological struggle.

| Feb 28, 2019

An integral film for the development of the horror genre.

| Original Score: A | Oct 5, 2018

Peeping Tom didn't make me want to streak out of the cinema shrieking, as Franju's film did at times; it gives me the creeps in retrospect, in my heart and mind more than in my eyes.

| Jul 19, 2018