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“a ten minute chase scene with Cary Grant scaling down Mount Rushmore, every second of which you're screaming at the screen”
tmdb47633491 · TMDB reviews ↗
“What Hitchcock delivers now is a slowly unravelling adventure mystery with loads of red herrings, plenty of well written and executed humour from Grant and a gradually accruing sense of menace as we finally realise just what is going on.”
CinemaSerf · TMDB reviews ↗
“although i really enjoyed the last sequence on the monument”
badshaped · Metacritic ↗
“once it's knocked out of the way in the first act, North by Northwest is then perfectly happy to progressively up the stakes and riff on that premise for the rest of its allotted time”
drqshadow · Metacritic ↗
“the fast-paced, ever-intensifying script that envelopes him never gives us the chance to sit and stew on it”
drqshadow · Metacritic ↗
“A thrilling ride that keeps you on the edge until the final.”
d88b · Metacritic ↗
Read 26 Aug 2026 · confidence 78% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“There’s a superabundance of sparkling, often marvellously terse one-liners (when asked what the “O” stands for, Thornhill’s resigned and emotionally relevant answer is, “Nothing”) – and, my, how wittily Grant delivers them.”
Mark Monahan, The Telegraph · 100
“This is Hitchcock's longest film and also his most self-referential. Little jokes abound about art and artifice, role play and reality, duty and duplicity and each viewing reveals something new to enhance the pleasure of watching the Master of Suspense at his most mischievous and assured.”
David Parkinson, Empire · 100
“This film is pure entertainment.”
Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter · 100
“The picture is hugely pleased with itself, but it’s too funny and expertly calibrated to mind in the least. Both Hitchcock and Grant raise relaxed confidence to masterpiece level here.”
Bill Weber, Slant Magazine · 100
“[A] sublime classic.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 26 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 98, the watch 73
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“although i really enjoyed the last sequence on the monument”
badshapedabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“once it's knocked out of the way in the first act, North by Northwest is then perfectly happy to progressively up the stakes and riff on that premise for the rest of its allotted time”
drqshadowabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“the fast-paced, ever-intensifying script that envelopes him never gives us the chance to sit and stew on it”
drqshadowabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“A thrilling ride that keeps you on the edge until the final.”
d88babout 0–100% inread it ↗
“a ten minute chase scene with Cary Grant scaling down Mount Rushmore, every second of which you're screaming at the screen”
tmdb47633491about 80–90% inread it ↗
“What Hitchcock delivers now is a slowly unravelling adventure mystery with loads of red herrings, plenty of well written and executed humour from Grant and a gradually accruing sense of menace as we finally realise just what is going on.”
CinemaSerfabout 15–100% inread it ↗
“Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms. Roger O Thornhill is a harmless and amiable advertising executive who is absurdly mistaken for a government agent by a gang of ruthless spies. Forced to go out on the lam, Thornhill lurches from one perilous scenario to another. Can he survive to prove his innocence? Is the gorgeous blonde who is helping him really a friend? All will be revealed in Alfred Hitchcock's majestic thriller. If deconstructing it you find that this isn't a”
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“***It has its points of interest, but any 60’s Bond flick is a better choice*** When an ad executive in Manhattan (Gary Cooper) is mistaken for a government agent by a foreign spy & his cronies (James Mason, et al.) he finds himself a fugitive traveling by train to Chicago wherein he meets a woman that seems to have his favor (Eva Marie Saint). After a curious encounter with a crop dusting plane everything culminates at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. "North by Northwest" (1959) is an adven”
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