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Movie critics combined give Rear Window (1954) a score of 3.8072 out of 4
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Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for filethirteen.com (--)filethirteen.com (--)
Claustrophobic. Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" is about nothing but claustrophobia. Not the clinical and scientific of it, but the Americanism of it. We, as a society, are claustrophobic. It was only beginning to be true in 1954 when Hitchcock made the ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at filethirteen.com (--)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Stephen Groenewegen)eFilmCritic.com (Stephen Groenewegen)
Since it was made in 1954, Rear Window has become one of Alfred Hitchcock's best loved films. It's wonderful to be able to experience it on the big screen, in a lovingly restored version. The story is familiar from television. Like most of Hitchcock's ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Stephen Groenewegen)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
One of the film's early ad campaigns read, 'If you do not experience delicious terror when you see Rear Window , then pinch yourself--you are most probably dead.' ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
Never to be surpassed, never to be repeated. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Jam! Movies (Steve Tilley)Jam! Movies (Steve Tilley)
But there's no denying this is Hitchcock at his finest, and that Rear Window is worth seeing again - and again ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Jam! Movies (Steve Tilley)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Salon.com (Charles Taylor)Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Surely one of Alfred Hitchcock's best entertainments. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
There's no need for anybody to go on at length about the absolute brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller, which represented the first stunning cinematic statement about the effects of the kind of modern voyeurism associated with film itself. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Since the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic is all about the voyeuristic instinct, the better the view, the more sensational the experience. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Alfred Hitchcock's answer to why he makes films and perhaps his darkest one, both as a romance and as a thriller. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
In an impressive oeuvre, Rear Window is arguably the most exquisitely handcrafted feature, because Hitchcock mastered the spatial as well as behavioral coordinates of his chosen universe inch by inch. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for FilmHead.com (Matt Heffernan)FilmHead.com (Matt Heffernan)
Just when things were at their bleakest, the cinema is saved from the winter doldrums. Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece, Rear Window (just one of many), has now been restored by Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz, the men responsible for the wonderful 1996 ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at FilmHead.com (Matt Heffernan)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
In my humble opinion, Rear Window is one of the true masterpieces of cinema. To this day, I can't find one aspect of this film that doesn't inspire a feeling of awe, from Hitchcock's (Strangers on a Train, Under Capricorn) genius in cinematic technique, ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Classic Film Guide (--)Classic Film Guide (--)
This voyeuristic film is loved by many - James Stewart plays a news photographer who's been confined to a wheelchair in his apartment which gives him a view of a courtyard & into the apartments of many residents and their lives. His nurse (Thelma Ritter) ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Classic Film Guide (--)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (--)Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (--)
Who among us hasn't sneaked a second peak or offered a double take at an image innocently glimpsed across the ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (--)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)
There aren't many directors who could have made REAR WINDOW a success. Sure it has wonderful, talented performers, but if you tried to sell this film today it never would have gotten off the ground. "You want to film the entire story on one set? From one ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Akiva Gottlieb)rec.arts.movies.reviews (Akiva Gottlieb)
"Rear Window" takes place almost entirely in one room, yet Sir Alfred Hitchcock envisioned it as "a purely cinematic film." It is his ambitious vision that transforms tricky source material into a timeless classic. To keep his vision intact, Robert A. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Akiva Gottlieb)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Keith Dumble's Screen Scene (Keith Dumble)Keith Dumble's Screen Scene (Keith Dumble)
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is an original and unique thriller, one that not only entertains us on a superficial level but also makes points on cinema as voyeurism and whether invasion of privacy can ever be justified. Wrapping the whole thing up in a ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Keith Dumble's Screen Scene (Keith Dumble)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for At-A-Glance Film Reviews (--)At-A-Glance Film Reviews (--)
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known." Rear Window is, ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews (--)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Cinema-Scene.com (David Perry)Cinema-Scene.com (David Perry)
Rear Window is one of those films that makes it to the occasional top ten lists of all time. In my opinion, it is not Hitchcock's best film, but it does rank as one of his finest efforts, a fact that many would agree on. It is films like Rear Window ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Cinema-Scene.com (David Perry)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Hot-shot photographer L. B. Jeffries - or "Jeff", as he's known to his chums - is at a bit of a loose end. You see he's stuck in a wheelchair, having broken a leg in a car accident whilst working on a Grand Prix circuit (perhaps a bit of a touchy subject ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for San Jose Mercury News (Glenn Lovell)San Jose Mercury News (Glenn Lovell)
IT'S THE heat that sticks with you. It's one of those blistering, unbearably hot New York summers where you can fry the proverbial egg on the sidewalk. It's so hot that Jimmy Stewart's temporarily waylaid photographer, L.B. Jeffries, just sits and stews ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at San Jose Mercury News (Glenn Lovell)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Ted Prigge)rec.arts.movies.reviews (Ted Prigge)
What results is, in essence, one of the greatest films ever made. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Ted Prigge)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
A stellar film. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
An intriguing, brilliant Hitchcockian macabre visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Michael Dequina)rec.arts.movies.reviews (Michael Dequina)
For some real voyeuristic thrills, one cannot do better than Universal's sparkling remaster of Alfred Hitchcock's timeless (that is, aside from the dated, soundstagey production design) 1954 classic. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Michael Dequina)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
What a great movie. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
...see Rear Window, if you haven't already, for [Grace] Kelly's sensual, slo-mo entrance... ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Vincent Canby)New York Times (Vincent Canby)
Its appeal, which goes beyond that of other, equally masterly Hitchcock works, remains undiminished. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at New York Times (Vincent Canby)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)
The director's most accomplished film. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
voyeuristic mystery is a masterpiece of meticulous detail. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
One of the finest ever committed to celluloid! ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
One of the most elegant entertainments ever made in Hollywood, and also one of the boldest and most personal of the Hitchcock films -- a work that's almost perverse in its giddy celebration of the thrill of voyeurism. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Rear Window lovingly invests in suspense all through the film, banking it in our memory, so that when the final payoff arrives, the whole film has been the thriller equivalent of foreplay. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for txreviews.com (Curtis Edmonds)txreviews.com (Curtis Edmonds)
[Stewart] is perfectly convincing as the sort of man who could ignore Grace Kelly to concentrate on a pointless, voyeuristic hobby. That's acting. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at txreviews.com (Curtis Edmonds)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Hitchcock made more than a half-dozen films that lesser directors would gladly claim as a masterpiece. None surpasses the suspense, romance, wit and wisdom of Rear Window . ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
one of the cinema's great guilty pleasures ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Not only is Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window one of his best pictures, it's one of the best films ever made altogether. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
A brilliant idea for a movie. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Houston Chronicle (Jeff Millar)Houston Chronicle (Jeff Millar)
The deliciousness of watching the film as it's intended to be seen is that the big screen gives Rear Window back its claustrophobia. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Houston Chronicle (Jeff Millar)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for culturevulture.net (Gary Mairs)culturevulture.net (Gary Mairs)
The most provocative meditation on moviegoing ever made. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at culturevulture.net (Gary Mairs)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
An early ad summed up one of the film's enduring appeals: If you don't experience delicious terror, then pinch yourself--you're most probably dead. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Variety (Todd McCarthy)Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Close to a perfect film. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
But if eggheads have made it a subject of scholarship, it's because Hitchcock and his screenwriter, John Michael Woolrich, really did create a lasting multimedia prophecy. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)
Jeff (Stewart) is an intrepid photographer who is immobilised in a wheelchair one hot summer. Confined to his apartment, his only visitors are his cynical masseuse Stella (Ritter) and his gorgeous girlfriend Lisa (Kelly). Driven by boredom - and a need ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.72 out of 4 stars for Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Interesting and fun from the start. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.64 out of 4 stars for filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
What would you do if you had a broken leg and were holed up in your apartment? Read a book? Surf the internet? You could do such things, but you couldn't really make a movie about it. On the other hand, if you have a voyeuristic view of a half-dozen ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
...one of Hitchcock's most-successful screen works and an easy recommendation for any DVD library. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Dragan Antulov)rec.arts.movies.reviews (Dragan Antulov)
[This] 1954 thriller, often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, could be seen as some kind of ode to voyeurism. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Dragan Antulov)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Christian Spotlight on the Movies (--)Christian Spotlight on the Movies (--)
Considered one of the best films by director Alfred Hitchcock and following his formula of an ordinary man stumbling into trouble, this film is constructed in a way that makes the viewer uneasy. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies (--)
Rear Window (1954) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Alienshore Film Reviews (Rick Pali)Alienshore Film Reviews (Rick Pali)
L. B. Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) is a man on the outside looking in. He's a famous photographer, used to travelling the world on assignments through sometime terrible conditions with nothing but his camera and a suitcase. ...read the complete Rear Window movie review at Alienshore Film Reviews (Rick Pali)
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Rear Window (1954) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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Rear Window (1954) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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