Metacritic Movie Ratings
Hitchcock Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 83

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  It's a perfect summation of why he was the ultimate filmmaker.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy

  This narrative directing debut by Sacha Gervasi remains absorbing and aptly droll despite a few dramatic ups and downs and, led by large performances by Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren.

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• 75

  out of 100

  ReelViewsJames Berardinelli

  Anthony Hopkins is probably a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  Hitchcock tells the story not so much as the making of the film, but as the behind-the-scenes relationship of Alma and Hitch. This is a disappointment, since I imagine most movie fans will expect more info about the film's production history.

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• 70

  out of 100

  TimeMary Pols

  It's a feel-good frolic, which is fine for anyone who prefers their Hitchcock history tidied up, absent the megalomania, the condescending cruelty and tendency to sexual harassment that caused his post-Psycho blonde discovery Tippi Hedren to declare him "a mean, mean man."

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Though the film is titled Hitchcock and ostensibly centers on the legendary director, we get a better sense of the women around him than the enigmatic filmmaker.

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• 60

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan

  Hitchcock puts major league star power at the service of its peek-behind-closed-doors premise. But whatever that relationship was like in real life, this is one cinematic portrait of a marriage we could have lived without.

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• 60

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  The movie has its diversions, including Scarlett Johansson's bodacious Janet Leigh and Michael Stuhlbarg's wheedling Lew Wasserman. It's fluff. But while its dim fantasies about Hitchcock and the association of genius with psychosis can be written off as silly, they also smack of spiteful jealousy.

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• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  Hitchcock is a diverting but dramatically insipid account of how the Master of Suspense took his biggest gamble and delivered his greatest success with "Psycho."

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• 10

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Hitchcock rings false from start to finish.

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