A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959.
This is Hitchcock for a tabloid audience: simplistic, judgemental, smug and pat. Rewatch the actual films instead.
Somewhere between the abuser of The Girl and the cutely impish Michelin Man of Hitchcock, there’s still a fascinating, entertaining portrait of a dirty old megalomaniac waiting to be made.
An interesting, if slight, portrayal of a cinematic legend and his myriad foibles.
Hitchcock for dummies: brisk, jolly, well-played but oversimplified.
Give us more, you feel yourself groaning: if anyone can take it, it is an audience that has paid to see a film about Alfred Hitchcock.
I’m not really sure what the point of the movie is beyond giving Alma her rightful place in film history and putting her over-praised hubby back in his place - if what the picture depicts is true.
This shallow, naive biopic of the Master has had its thunder totally stolen by the far superior recent TV film.
Hopkins accentuates his gloominess and introspective quality while also showing the decisiveness and wit that made him such a formidable director. It's not a showy performance but it's an immensely effective one.
This superficial, star-studded dramatisation of the making of Psycho doesn’t come close to uncovering why it’s an important film.
Hitchcock aims to tell the “untold story”, but also functions as Alfred Hitchcock For Beginners. It’s more slight and glossy than penetrating or definitive, but the subject matter is interesting enough.
Unlike Hitchcock’s work, it fades from memory almost immediately.
Don't expect much darkness or insight. Like the recent Monroe anecdote My Week With Marilyn, Hitchcock is classy, but slight – the upmarket beach-read version of a legend.
It gives a revealing picture of the last days of the big studio system and the old production code but doesn't explain why Psycho was a landmark in 20th-century popular culture. It does, however, take liberties with the facts.
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