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Vertigo (1959)

…paints a dreamlike portrait of the passions of limerence and the devastation that trying to recapture those initial feelings can bring…

Clark and company infuse a tremendous energy into this wildly unbalanced…

…weaves well into the existing timeline and seems like perhaps a more satisfying place to end the story.

…glimpses of future sci-fi classics in the aesthetics. The first thirty minutes of the film are a fine bit of suspense…

…admittedly too transparent – showing its hand prematurely, and forcing the obvious on viewers…

We’re allowed to properly fall in love with the clueless characters… before things take an ominous turn.

As the last collaboration between Hitchcock and many of his finest collaborators, this film gives a clear glimpse at…

Sights and sounds both grisly and gorgeous tumble onto the screen in a dizzying, often nauseating, fashion…

…For all the haunting things witnessed on screen, it’s the out-of-shot horrors we see expressed in…

In the absence of sound, visual storytelling and emotive acting drive this altogether gripping suspense story…