While the plotting is a bit stodgy, the slyly flirtatious Kelly-Grant patter and gorgeous VistaVision travelogue scenery go a long way.

| Jan 8, 2025

An engaging bit of fluff from Alfred Hitchcock.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2024

If you’re enthusiastic about costuming or beautiful women, this might to be for you. If you’re looking for more than that, this will leave you feeling cheated out of your money and time.

| Feb 2, 2023

The story... lacks suspense, and some of the script’s double entendres have a Carry On quality, yet the film easily gets by on its stars’ charms and the surrounding air of luxury.

| Nov 7, 2022

Both director and writer seem unable to sustain character, much less develop, and enrich it. Both [To Catch and Thief and The Trouble with Harry] drag along from scene to scene without much inner motivation.

| Nov 18, 2021

It literally bubbles with humor, spice, sparkling dialogue and baffling complications which keep the moviegoer on tenterhooks right up to the heap big surprise ending.

| Sep 25, 2021

The highlight of the film is the chemistry and dialogue between Kelly and Grant, who playfully flirt with ceaseless double-entendres and sassy innuendos.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 23, 2020

To Catch a Thief celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2020 and the film has never been more beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2020

Grant had a certain suave, debonair appeal, and charming good looks which made him the perfect casting choice for the role of Robie.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 23, 2020

It's not one of Hitch's most profound films, but it remains a twinkling, innuendo-laden pleasure, with Grant, Kelly and the French Riviera vying for your attention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2019

It's hardly one of his best, but it's not half-bad - and the French Riviera, in VistaVision, is a sight to behold.

| Oct 21, 2019

Mainly a star vehicle for Grant and Kelly, and one of those glamorous studio capers you occasionally get now that put a leading man and lady together in some hokum genre fare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2019

Light-hearted romp with much creative photography.

| Sep 13, 2017

It's all about the sparkle of glamour and the romantic smolder of seductive stars playing cagey characters who play at romance with all of their charm.

| Dec 15, 2016

A bubbly and effervescent Alfred Hitchcock romantic-suspenser that finds the Master in a relaxed and purely entertaining mood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2014

Hitchock-lite, but highly enjoyable for it, To Catch a Thief is a visually dazzling romantic comedy with two incomparable leads.

| Aug 13, 2014

Grant and Kelly are on sparkling form, as is Jessie Royce Landis as the latter's formidable and smirky mother, and the French Riviera is beautifully captured by the Oscar-winning cinematography of Robert Burks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2014

Francie finds something inauthentic in Robie: "like an American in an English movie". Well, yes, perhaps. But Grant's debonair and oddly unlocatable mid-Atlantic identity is absolutely right for the part.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2014

A fun seaside frolic, but doesn't sit long in the mind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2014

The whole thing is really a condensed summer holiday, all hot sun and suavity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2014