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TopTenREVIEWS presents the movie reviews of Rebecca (1940)

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Rebecca (1940)

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Rebecca (1940) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars Rebecca (1940) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Overall Rating:3.6061
Avg Critic Score:3.5539

Rebecca (1940) Rank 3 Reviews

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Excellent
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Very Good
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Good
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Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.47 out of 4 stars for Edinburgh U Film Society (Alicia Forsyth) Edinburgh U Film Society (Alicia Forsyth)
Rebecca tells the tale of a timid English girl (whose name we significantly never find out) who falls in love with a rich, distant widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) They marry and he takes her back to his home Manderley - a place still dominated ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Alicia Forsyth)
Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.47 out of 4 stars for JackassCritics.com (Tom Blain) JackassCritics.com (Tom Blain)
If you have read my reviews or at least perused them, you will notice that I am somewhat of a Hitchcock fan. I will say that it was probably the master of suspense himself that pulled me out of the “Star Wars Syndrome.” The “Star Wars Syndrome” ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at JackassCritics.com (Tom Blain)
Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.45 out of 4 stars for BBCi - Films BBCi - Films
Produced by David Selznick, Rebecca is a delirious Gothic melodrama, swimming with queer undercurrents. Laurence Olivier plays brooding widower Max de Winter. Joan Fontaine plays his unnamed second wife, who discovers that life on de Winter’s imposing ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at BBCi - Films
Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.45 out of 4 stars for Crazy for Cinema Crazy for Cinema
REBECCA was one of Hitchcock's first American films where he collaborated with the powerful producer David O. Selznick. Both being perfectionists who thought that they were the pre-eminent filmmaker, it was not a pleasant experience. One would never ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at Crazy for Cinema
Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.45 out of 4 stars for 411Mania.com (Dunn) 411Mania.com (Dunn)
Depending on how you look at it, Alfred Hitchcock's first American film is a lush romantic melodrama, a superb ghost story, a psychological thriller, or a disturbing character study. What is nearly unanimous is that it is one of Hitchcock's most ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at 411Mania.com (Dunn)

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Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.43 out of 4 stars for Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews
Hitch is really good at using light and music to define every mood and moment, and he loves to focus on the eyes. It's a good movie and Fontaine could not have done better at playing modest and fearful, but Anderson is wonderful as Danvers. Check it out. ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews
Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.35 out of 4 stars for Appreciating Great Trash Appreciating Great Trash
Ostensibly Alfred Hitchcock's American debut but really another product of producer David O. Selznick's peremptoriness, Rebecca is a good story executed well, but Selznick and Hitchcock seem at odds with each other; Hitchcock's clammy style only ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at Appreciating Great Trash
Rebecca (1940) scores a combined 3.34 out of 4 stars for Movie Mirror Movie Mirror
Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) stands on the edge of a cliff, but a young woman (Joan Fontaine) shouts for him to stop. At Monte Carlo he meets again this paid companion of Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates), who says that Maxim's wife Rebecca ...read the complete Rebecca movie review at Movie Mirror
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