Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1960) Review| The Goods: Film Reviews
Suspicion is Hitchcock playing peekaboo. The juiciest stuff keeps happening just out of view, conveyed through rumors and second-hand recounting. Its most powerful images are not violence but the negative space suggesting it: a shadow of a slowly opening door, a glowing glass of milk that may or may not be poisoned. Nineteen years before […]| The Goods: Film Reviews
Hitchcock has three filmmaking gears: coasting, locked-in, and getting weird. To Catch a Thief is the textbook for the first of these: sleek, charming, a little hollow. I don’t mean that as a slam so much as setting a ceiling on the film. This is a sparkling vacation cocktail by the master pop-thriller mixologist, and […]| The Goods: Film Reviews
I have a rule of thumb that Alfred Hitchcock movies must be watched twice to be properly appreciated. His films are typically much more about how you get there than the destination itself, though plenty of his films have terrific endings. Still, I can’t think of any of his films I’ve been less fond of […]| The Goods: Film Reviews
