Notorious (1946) Rank 4 Reviews

DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)

Notorious is also famous, of course, for having the longest on-screen kiss, with Bergman and Grant's clinch clocking in at a little over three minutes. Their relationship had a real spark. Grant's character is unsure whether he can trust Bergman, wary ...read the complete Notorious movie review at DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)

Latin America on Screen

In Notorious, the MacGuffin is uranium-soaked sand hidden in red wine bottles. Ostensibly, the whole purpose of the movie's plot, in which "notorious" good-time girl Alicia Huberman is recruited by the CIA to marry the Nazi Alex Sebastian, involves ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Latin America on Screen

filmcritic.com feels Notorious

It just doesnâ��t get any more stylish than this. A high point in Hollywoodâ��s golden era, Notorious is a convergence of talent. Hitchcock is most "notorious" for psycho-thrillers (i.e. Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Psycho) but the trademark ...read the complete Notorious movie review at filmcritic.com feels Notorious

CultureDose.net (John Nesbit)

Iâ��m talking about falling in love with film. Too many modern filmmakers have become lazy and sloppy with the art. ...read the complete Notorious movie review at CultureDose.net (John Nesbit)

The Duck Mafia

Hitchcockâ��s romantic Noir Notorious sees the Master of Suspense in good, but overrated, form. Made soon after the end of World War II, the film takes Nazi villains and pits them against an American agency, embodied by Cary Grantâ��s character Devlin, ...read the complete Notorious movie review at The Duck Mafia

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Alfred Hitchcock's ``Notorious'' is the most elegant expression of the master's visual style, just as ``Vertigo'' is the fullest expression of his obsessions. It contains some of the most effective camera shots in his--or anyone's--work, and they ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Movie Habit DVD review

T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant, North by Northwest) is an American spy on assignment in Brazil. Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound) is the daughter of a Nazi recently convicted of war crimes. Devlin enlists Alicia in a scheme to smoke out other Nazis ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Movie Habit DVD review

Cinema Laser

Of the films that Alfred Hitchcock made while under contract to David O. Selznick, NOTORIOUS is the first one that is most assuredly his own. Already having absorbed the glamour and attention to detail that was the trademark of a Selznick production, ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Cinema Laser

DVD Verdict - Criterion Collection

The affair between Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick (all very platonic, thank you very much) is one of the stranger battles of wills in Hollywood history. Both men were notorious for their, well, control issues. Those talents meshed on Rebecca, in ...read the complete Notorious movie review at DVD Verdict - Criterion Collection

digitallyOBSESSED! DVD Reviews

Life could not be worse for Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). The authorities have imprisoned her father for treason, and he expresses no remorse for his actions. Both the press and the police are keeping a close eye on every move that she makes. Plus, ...read the complete Notorious movie review at digitallyOBSESSED! DVD Reviews

DVDTalk.com review (Holly E. Ordway)

It's always a bit tricky to approach a review of an older "classic" film. The weight of film history, and the director's reputation, can be intimidating. Yet as a reviewer, I believe that a film should always be viewed simply as a film: in the space ...read the complete Notorious movie review at DVDTalk.com review (Holly E. Ordway)

Mondo Digital

After her Nazi sympathizer father is sentenced to prison for treason, troubled party girl and closet U.S. patriot Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) finds her self-destructive downward spiral in Miami halted by the presence of Devlin (Cary Grant), a CIA ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Mondo Digital

Reel.com DVD review (Pam Grady)

Though Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense, romance was the engine that drove many of his films. In 1946's Notorious, that engine purrs like a kitten as the couple played by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman flirt and bicker, their mutual distrust ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Reel.com DVD review (Pam Grady)

DVD Verdict

Notorious has long been my favorite Hitchcock film from his Hollywood pre-color days. The collaboration between screenwriter Ben Hecht (The Front Page), producer David Selznick and Hitch was a lesson in chemistry. Throw into the mix the charm and ...read the complete Notorious movie review at DVD Verdict

Senses of Cinema

Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) is a film that goes very fast, like an express train, like a feverish dream. That's why I've had to watch it so many times, and every time with immense, intense pleasure: to unpack, to unravel these relationships ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Senses of Cinema

Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics

Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant director, but time and again his portrayals of female characters were troubling. While his male characters were often complex and always very human, the women were all too often simple, shrill, screwed-up or plain nasty. ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics

Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)

Over-rated Hollywood icons (Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman) in an over-rated Hitchcock film, which isn't to say that it's either bad or boring. Neither much, and very racy for puritanical mid-century America. It's perplexing, of course, how any trained ...read the complete Notorious movie review at Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)

FilmHead.com - Video Pick

The first film this week come from Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica, who has almost single-handedly brought Serbo-Croatian cinema to the world with such films as When Father Was Away On Business and Time of the Gypsies. The plot of this film revolves ...read the complete Notorious movie review at FilmHead.com - Video Pick

DVD Times

We've all heard the arguments about which of the fifty three films that Hitchcock directed is "the best". Some go for Psycho, others for Vertigo or North By Northwest. Well, all of those movies are brilliant of course but my own favourite among his ...read the complete Notorious movie review at DVD Times

About.com Home Video/DVD Review

Starring Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains, Alfred Hitchcockâ��s 1946 "Notorious" is an elegant film noir that interweaves a suspense yarn about spies with a strange love story. Hitchcock was a master of visual style, and "Notorious" is ...read the complete Notorious movie review at About.com Home Video/DVD Review

DVD Savant review

Probably the best of the Selznick Hitchcocks, and still the most dramatically satisfying, Notorious is a fascinating film. Besides being a superior romance, it's a model of suspense construction. After Shadow of a Doubt, it's Hitchcock's next ...read the complete Notorious movie review at DVD Savant review

The Greatest Films - comprehensive analysis of classic US film

Hitchcock tells the subtle tale of a beautiful but confused and agonized American spy (Ingrid Bergman) with a reputation for loose living as a playgirl (she is the American-born daughter of a convicted Nazi sympathizer) who unwillingly infiltrates an ...read the complete Notorious movie review at The Greatest Films - comprehensive analysis of classic US film

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Notorious (1946) Rank 4 Reviews

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