The acting is top-notch all around, but Gervasi’s treatment makes one want to pick up a Hitchcock biography instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2022

Most closely resembling a romantic comedy, the film's tone keeps the proceedings consistently entertaining, but also prevents intrusion of any serious drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 1, 2020

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

As it turns out, few of the remarkable filmmaker's most interesting concerns or characteristics manage to break their way into Hitchcock.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2020

Hitchcock may have right intentions in mind but not the best execution.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2019

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 19, 2018

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 16, 2018

Even if you've never seen a Hitchcock film in your life, it's worth seeing for the performances alone.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 21, 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.

Full Review | Oct 20, 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.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2018

It's insulting to the Hitchcocks and to the audience.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2018

A slimly plotted, rather shallow film about an important director that barely shows him directing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

The plot trundles along in a homely way... but never generates anything truly remarkable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It is not profound or even particularly truthful, but I found it pretty fun to watch.

Full Review | Aug 22, 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.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2018

Hitchcock does noteworthy disservices to the master.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2018

Watching Hitchcock pitch his story to the press and bicker with executives and censors is amusing and sobering at the same time,

Full Review | Nov 29, 2017

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2017

... Hitchcock blends fact, rumour, conjecture, fantasy, fiction, pop psychoanalysis and sheer screenwriting laziness into a gaudy, risible mishmash.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2017

If Hitchcock himself was alive today, he'd undoubtedly turn his nose up.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2017