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Rear Window

1954

Alfred Hitchcock

James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr ...

8.2

78,431

Mystery A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he tries to escape from boredom by looking through the window of his apartment using goggles. After a while, he starts to suspect that there has been a murder in one of the opposite apartments.

	Media	Author	Review
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Masterpiece of voyeurism"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This level of danger and suspense is so far elevated above the cheap thrills of the modern slasher films that 'Rear Window', intended as entertainment in 1954, is now revealed as art (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A tense and exciting exercise (...) it does expose many facets of the loneliness of city life and it tacitly demonstrates the impulse of morbid curiosity."
		William Brogdon Variety	"A tight suspense show is offered in 'Rear Window', one of Alfred Hitchcock's better thrillers"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"Hitchcock proves again to be 'The Master Of Suspense', but in 'Rear Window' (...) he's the master of a lot more than that (...) [It] ranks among Hitchcock's best."
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The most densely allegorical of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces (...) It is also Hitchcock's most innovative film in terms of narrative technique"
		Killian Fox The Guardian	"Hitchcock made a career out of indulging our voyeuristic tendencies, and he never excited them more skilfully, or with more gleeful self-awareness, than in 'Rear Window'"
		Kim Newman Empire	"An exceptionally paranoid treat of a film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Peachment Time Out	"There is suspense enough, of course, but the important thing is the way that it is filmed: the camera never strays from inside Stewart's apartment, and every shot is closely aligned with his point of view."

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