Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
Nov 12, 2025
1.5/4
Dial M for Misfire.
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Don Shanahan
Every Movie Has a Lesson
Oct 17, 2024
4/5
The film balances its darkness with its cheekiness extremely well. The drama never swings too deep and the comedy never turns farcical.
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Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
Sep 21, 2022
2.5/4
The acting is top-notch all around, but Gervasi’s treatment makes one want to pick up a Hitchcock biography instead.
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Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
Dec 1, 2020
8/10
Most closely resembling a romantic comedy, the film's tone keeps the proceedings consistently entertaining, but also prevents intrusion of any serious drama.
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Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
Sep 10, 2020
3.5/4.0
As marvelous as is Hopkins, the film simply wouldn't be the same without the presence of Helen Mirren as Hitchcock's longtime companion Alma Reville.
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Joanne Laurier
World Socialist Web Site
Aug 13, 2020
As it turns out, few of the remarkable filmmaker's most interesting concerns or characteristics manage to break their way into Hitchcock.
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Katie Smith-Wong
Flick Feast
Nov 26, 2019
3/5
Hitchcock may have right intentions in mind but not the best execution.
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Kelly Jane Torrance
Washington Examiner
Dec 19, 2018
1.5/4
His obsessive nature is one of the things that makes Hitchcock such a mysterious figure. But we don't learn anything about what made him tick here.
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PJ Nabarro
Patrick Nabarro
Dec 16, 2018
2/5
What's ironic is that Psycho was such a radical, cinematographically novel film, but Gervasi is completely unable to find a meta-referential way of honouring that.
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Debbie Baldwin
Ladue News
Nov 21, 2018
9/10
Even if you've never seen a Hitchcock film in your life, it's worth seeing for the performances alone.
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Sarah Gopaul
Digital Journal
Oct 20, 2018
If you're interested in Hitchcock's domestic life, this film is for you. But don't expect to learn much about the man in the director's chair.
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Deborah Ross
The Spectator
Sep 4, 2018
Would have been much better off if it had taken a moment to sit down and decide on its own sensibility... It might have settled on the one, and retained its focus. But it didn't, so it doesn't, and it tells us nothing.
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Pat Padua
DCist
Aug 30, 2018
It's insulting to the Hitchcocks and to the audience.
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Alexa Dalby
Dog and Wolf
Aug 27, 2018
3/5
A slimly plotted, rather shallow film about an important director that barely shows him directing.
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Joseph Walsh
CineVue
Aug 23, 2018
2/5
The plot trundles along in a homely way... but never generates anything truly remarkable.
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Asia Frey
Lagniappe (Mobile, AL)
Aug 22, 2018
It is not profound or even particularly truthful, but I found it pretty fun to watch.
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Jordan Riefe
Celebuzz
Aug 21, 2018
An occasionally enjoyable, though uneven look, at the making of Psycho... Hitchcock is most engaging when Hopkins and Mirren share the screen as a durable old couple straining under 33 years of marriage.
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A.S. Hamrah
n+1
Apr 30, 2018
Hitchcock does noteworthy disservices to the master.
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Josh Terry
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Nov 29, 2017
Watching Hitchcock pitch his story to the press and bicker with executives and censors is amusing and sobering at the same time,
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Jo Berry
The National (UAE)
Nov 20, 2017
2/5
Anyone wanting to learn about the real Hitchcock will be disappointed - although Hopkins does get a gold star for a tongue-in-cheek impersonation of Alfred.
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