Once it switches over to us getting inside her head... I started seeing it more as Judy's story than Scottie's.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 9, 2024

Alfred Hitchcock tops his own fabulous record for suspense with Vertigo, a super-tale of murder, madness and mysticism that stars James Stewart and Kim Novak.

| May 13, 2022

The storytelling isn't up to much. It drags and drags.

| May 18, 2020

It's doubtful that Vertigo can take equal rank with the best of the Hitchcock studies -- it has too many holes -- but it assays high in visual confectionary of place, person and celluloid wiles.

| Sep 21, 2018

Combines in an almost unique balance Hitchcock's brash flair for psychological shocks with his elegant genius for dapper stylishness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2018

A dizzying cinematic experience.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2018

The tempo may be generally very slow, but it is not monotonous; the camera work may be unostentatious but it is quietly, calmly efficient in establishing character, atmosphere, and uncertainty.

| Mar 21, 2018

Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" is an artistic triumph for the master of mystery.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2016

It's as much a wonder of suspense as it is a catalogue of the director's themes and an allegory for his own art of enticement-and for the erotic pitfalls of his métier.

| Mar 15, 2015

Hitchcock's rich and strange fable of love lost, and lost again, makes the case for him as a grand experimental artist who labored in genre cinema.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 1, 2011

Hitchcock's most tender story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 1, 2011

The old master, now a slave to television, has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares.

| Apr 20, 2009

One of the landmarks -- not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century art.

| Apr 20, 2009

Why is this movie Hitchcock's masterpiece? Because no movie plunges us more deeply into the dizzying heart of erotic obsession.

| Aug 18, 2008

Slow but totally compelling.

| Jan 26, 2006

Pure Hitchcock.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2001

James Stewart, on camera almost constantly, comes through with a startlingly fine performance as the lawyer-cop who suffers from acrophobia.

| Feb 13, 2001

One of the things that still amazes me about this movie is the way its study of obsession is so single-minded.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Do yourself an aesthetic favor: Take the plunge.

| Jan 1, 2000

There! No more hints! Coming or not? What more's to say? Well, nothing, except that Vertigo is performed in the manner expected of all performers in Hitchcock films.

| Jan 1, 2000