Sarah Boslaugh TheArtsStl Dec 20, 2025 6/10

You can feel the conflict between producer David O. Selznick and director Alfred Hitchcock from the opening credits...

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 4, 2025 4/4

A commercial and critical hit in its day, this Best Picture Oscar nominee has seen its standing slip in the ensuing decades, as it's never mentioned on any list of Alfred Hitchcock's best works. That's a shame.

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Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film Aug 13, 2024 4.5/5

Those who love a good mystery, suspense...will...find many things to like in this film. Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck team-up to deliver a memorable romance, and the dedicated supporting cast...shine in their equally majestic roles.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Aug 16, 2023 2.5/4

Memorable for its stylistic flourishes...

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Fannie Hurst Modern Screen Jun 15, 2023

The unwary spectator who finds himself relaxed in the restful darkness of a motion picture theater, is going to be let in for shock.

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Marjory Adams Boston Globe Dec 31, 2020

A fascinating, grim, exciting motion picture, based on the currently popular interest in psychiatry, and illustrating a new method of crime detection. It is a "whodunit" (the current name for mystery dramas) raised to a de luxe intellectual plane.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Aug 15, 2020 7/10

Bergman and Peck are sensationally convincing as unlikely romancers in a feverish setting.

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Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Oct 5, 2019

...beneath the facile trappings there is an intriguing Hitchcockian study of role reversal, with doctors and patients, men and women, mothers and sons inverting their assigned relationships with compelling, subversive results.

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Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 6, 2019 3.5/4

A twisty thriller in the best Hitchcockian tradition, even if it may be a minor work in comparison to some of his more popular successes.

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Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) Sep 27, 2018

Today this seems above all a forward-thinking portrait of a woman battling for authority in a man's world.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jul 21, 2015 2/4

...a rare misfire within Hitch's otherwise solid body of work.

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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Feb 28, 2012 1/4

I don't agree with her much, but Pauline Kael was right about this one.

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Feb 16, 2012 6/10

It may not be first-rank Hitchcock, but even second-tier Hitchcock is better than what most other directors produce.

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Kevin Carr 7M Pictures Feb 6, 2012 4/5

Made in an age when master shots often became a standard scene style, Hitchcock shows some real thought behind his composition.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Feb 13, 2009

It has a lot of great stuff, not least of which is the odd dream sequence, designed by none other than Salvador Dali.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Nov 4, 2007 5/5

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Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television Aug 22, 2006

Uneven film, with fascinating dream images.

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Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) Aug 24, 2005 3/5

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 6, 2005 B+

One of Hollywood's most explicit films about psychoanalysis, Spellbound takes a dubious and contrived approach to the subject, but the stars (Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck)shine and their love story is enjoyable.

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness May 4, 2005 C

One of the director's most laughably dated films.

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