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Movie critics combined give Peeping Tom (1960) a score of 3.0790 out of 4
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Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Flipside Movie Emporium (Michael Scrutchin)Flipside Movie Emporium (Michael Scrutchin)
A memorable performance by Carl Boehm as one of the most pitiful and sympathetic psycho-killers you'll ever meet in the movies. ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Michael Scrutchin)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
Though it effectively ended Mr. Powell's career, Peeping Tom is now considered a once-forbidden classic, an audacious act of self-cannibalization in which cinema itself is a lethal weapon. ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Mark Athitakis)filmcritic.com (Mark Athitakis)
there’s a constantly gorgeous surface – a handsome hero, lots of bright Technicolor – and a constant moral rot at play underneath ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at filmcritic.com (Mark Athitakis)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for CineScene.com (Richard Doyle)CineScene.com (Richard Doyle)
eeping Tom was not just a chiller but a meditation on those voyeuristic impulses that make the film industry possible in the first place seems to have been lost on most critics of the day. ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at CineScene.com (Richard Doyle)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
PEEPING TOM follows the story of a cameraman and amateur documentary maker named Mark, who moonlights as a serial killer with a fetish for filming his lady victims at their moment of death just to see the look of fear on their faces. Mark finds a conflict ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 3.05 out of 4 stars for DVD AuthorityDVD Authority
As a child, Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) was exposed to cruel experiments by his own father, who had an interest in the human nervous system. His father would involve him in these horrific experiments, just to observe and record Mark's reactions to the ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at DVD Authority
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
The film gets at primitive fight-or-flight instincts buried in our psyches, and effectively questions the dividing lines between victim, assailant, and watcher. ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 2.73 out of 4 stars for Edinburgh U Film Society (Keith H. Brown)Edinburgh U Film Society (Keith H. Brown)
Peeping Tom tells the story of Mark, a quiet young man traumatized by his upbringing, such that he has developed a compulsion to observe and record terror, killing in order to do so. It was the film which effectively ended Michael Powell's career, ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Keith H. Brown)
Peeping Tom (1960) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Mondo DigitalMondo Digital
For anyone who watches movies on a regular basis, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom is bound to be an unsettling experience. The basic conceit of the film is quite simple: a seemingly normal but unbalanced photographer, Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm), kills ...read the complete Peeping Tom movie review at Mondo Digital
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3.2220
Peeping Tom (1960) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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3.0790
Peeping Tom (1960) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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