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MEANINGFUL
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how much it moved you
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“Vertigo was so strange already from the beginning because of its surreal and nightmarish atmosphere”
Eky · TMDB reviews ↗
“at 2 h 8 min it does drag and it goes mostly in circles”
badshaped · Metacritic ↗
“It is to slow and a bit boring honestly”
badshaped · Metacritic ↗
“the very ending just takes to long be unpacked”
badshaped · Metacritic ↗
“holding your interest until the end!”
strangebrew123 · Metacritic ↗
“The environments play with light, shadows, and perspectives to create a constant feeling of tension, bewilderment, and impending tragedy”
NiurkaVqzB1025 · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“Vertigo, which is one of the two or three best films Hitchcock ever made, is the most confessional, dealing directly with the themes that controlled his art.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 100
“All great art has within it some irreducible, inexplicable element, beyond its cleverness and craft. Such is the hold Vertigo has. This strange, frustrating story of a haunted pervert, Hitchcock's Byronic opus, still evades capture, and refuses to be something it's not.”
Rhik Samadder, The Guardian · 100
“Vertigo is one of the great movies about movies, and about Hitchcock’s own way with them.”
Richard Brody, The New Yorker · 100
“Profound, penetrating and unfathomable rather than (quite) perfectly formed art. Vertigo pioneered that camera effect, known as the dolly zoom, whereby the viewer (the point of view is always Stewart’s) appears to fall into an infinite abyss while remaining quite still...The film itself is that abyss, and we’re still falling into it and for it.”
Tim Robey, The Telegraph · 100
“Vertigo also combines in an almost unique balance Hitchcock’s brash flair for psychological shocks with his elegant genius for dapper stylishness. Like Psycho, it ends in an “o”, or maybe “oh!” The ancient house adjoining the Bates motel in Psycho certainly has an unearthly similarity to San Francisco’s creepy old McKitterick Hotel in Vertigo. [Rerelease]”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 25 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 97, the watch 73
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“at 2 h 8 min it does drag and it goes mostly in circles”
badshapedabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“It is to slow and a bit boring honestly”
badshapedabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“the very ending just takes to long be unpacked”
badshapedabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“holding your interest until the end!”
strangebrew123about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Vertigo was so strange already from the beginning because of its surreal and nightmarish atmosphere”
Ekyabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“I will never understand the universal adoration for Vertigo. Blindly inherited wisdom is the only explanation. How anyone could prefer this to North by Northwest or Rear Window is beyond me. An exceptionally made, exceptionally boring movie”
tmdb47633491read it ↗
“A tense, dizzying thriller from the Master. Plot in a nutshell: A retired detective suffering from acrophobia takes the case of an old college chum's wife, who may be possessed by the spirit of her great-grandmother who committed suicide many years previous. But of course, a much darker, and more down-to-earth, secret lies beneath the surface. Comments: James Stewart is the perfect anti-hero in this: clever and brave, but also disturbed, unhinged, and at times possessive. He does a ste”
barrymostread it ↗
“Not one of my favorites from Hitchcock, and certainly dower, but still visually striking and two amazing performances from James Stewart and Kim Novak. This is only the second time seeing this, guessing the last time was maybe 10 years ago or so, not entirely sure when I'll revisit it. **3.75/5**”
JPV852read it ↗
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