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Vertigo (1958)

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1950's

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1958

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Crime
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  10
  
  Crime of 1958
  
  of 70
  
  1
  
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Mystery
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  6
  
  Mystery of 1958
  
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  1
  
  Mystery of the 1950's
  
  of 164
  
  4
Thriller
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  of 7,007
  
  10
  
  Thriller of 1958
  
  of 27
  
  1
  
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Vertigo (1958) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.7026

Avg Critic Score:3.5995

Vertigo (1958) Rank 3 Reviews

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Kino (Alessandro Bencivenni)

Torna, splendidamente restaurata in 70mm da Robert Harris e James Katz (ma in Italia si vedrÃ solo nella versione in 35mm), una fra le piÃ¹ inquietanti storie di amour fou che si nascondono nei thriller del celeberrimo mago del brivido. "Vertigo" Ã¨ ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Kino (Alessandro Bencivenni)

Washington Post (Desson Thomson)

James Stewart plays a detective who has left the police force because his fear of heights has caused, he believes, a tragedy. ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)

Reverse Shot (Marianna Martin)

Thereâ��s something I should clarify right away. Though I had not, to my secret shame, seen Alfred Hitchcockâ��s Vertigo until last week, I had seen the first four reels, or, more specifically, the upper-right quadrant of those reels and little more, ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Reverse Shot (Marianna Martin)

Apollo Movie Guide (Brian Webster)

Classic 1958 Hitchcock mystery has San Francisco detective following and watching a beautiful and mysterious woman, seemingly bent on self-destruction. Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak are excellent, and the story is interesting and disturbing. A fine film ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Apollo Movie Guide (Brian Webster)

Bright Lights Film Journal

Vertigo opens with a policeman and a detective (James Stewart) chasing a fugitive across the tops of San Francisco buildings. Scottie, the detective, slips down a steep roof and ends up dangling from a flimsy rain gutter. The policeman tries to rescue ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Bright Lights Film Journal

Vertigo (1958) Critic Reviews continued...

Joe Barlow

The easiest way to identify a master filmmaker is to observe how well his or her work holds up to multiple viewings. All too often a story's luster fades quickly--even a movie beloved during the initial screening can feel stale and formulaic the second ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Joe Barlow

Film Court (Lawrence Russell)

John "Scotty" Ferguson is a middle-aged San Francisco detective gripped with a psychosexual obsession that manifests itself as a fear of heights or vertigo. His phobia appears to be a dream phobia, as the opening sequence shows him hanging from a ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Film Court (Lawrence Russell)

DVDBeaver

"Hitchcock's most memorable and haunting film of obsession wrapped in a surrealist plot of desperation and genuine edge-of-seat thrills. This is a film benefits greatly from the most pristine viewing available to help reveal its true grandeur. It is ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at DVDBeaver

San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)

The 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic has been transformed by film restorers Robert Harris and James Katz into something new and luminous. Frame by frame, they took a battered rose of American cinema and coaxed the dark, velvety petals back to ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)

Metro Pulse (Coury Turczyn)

Vertigo, on the other hand, is as artistic and complex a film as Hitchcock ever directed. Some critics say that it's his most personal film, and hence his greatest masterpiece. Whether or not you can accurately claim one Hitchcock movie to be "the ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Metro Pulse (Coury Turczyn)

Jiminy Critic (Ben Delbanco)

While not as celebrated as Psycho or Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcockâ��s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo is on some level a better film than either. Whereas Psycho is a fairly straight thriller and Rear Window explores only the psyche of one man, Vertigo is not ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Jiminy Critic (Ben Delbanco)

Filmchaw (Andrew Moxon)

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New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

[A] fascinating mystery. ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

Classic Film Guide

The title means dizziness, or describes a confused state of mind, this is a film about that and obsessive love which many critics say was director Alfred Hitchcock's best, though only in retrospect since it wasn't initially very well received. It was ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Classic Film Guide

SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)

Shot in and around San Francisco in 1957, "Vertigo" stars James Stewart as a retired cop hired to follow a friend's disturbed wife who is obsessed with a dead figure from San Francisco's history, a woman who committed suicide. ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)

Mr. Cranky

I don't know who exactly declared this 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film a "masterpiece," but that person obviously confused the differences between being entertained and being comatose. "Vertigo" is duller than Craig Kilborn's wit. Jimmy Stewart plays ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Mr. Cranky

Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)

VERTIGO (1958) *** A carousel of turning heads. Works standard Hitchcock themes of psychodrama, mystery, and romance. As usual romance gets short shrift but that's ok. It's great that Jimmy Stewart lasted into the color era, so that we get a better ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)

DVDnett.no

Vertigo er en medisinsk betegnelse - ordet betyr svimmelhet pÃ¥ norsk. Termen er ogsÃ¥ symtombeskrivelse pÃ¥ den konkrete svimmelheten man fÃ¥r ved hÃ¸ydeskrekk (akrofobi), men er ogsÃ¥ samlebegrep pÃ¥ mer udefinerbare svimmelhetsvarianter. I Vertigo ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at DVDnett.no

DVD MovieGuide

Right off the bat, let me make this clear: I think it's a good movie. I also think it's one that probably will open up additional layers upon repeated viewings, so I definitely reserve the right to alter my opinion at a later time. Right now, however, ...read the complete Vertigo movie review at DVD MovieGuide

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