Marnie
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 17, 1964 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The mise-en-scene tends toward a painterly abstraction, as Hitchcock employs powerful masses, blank colors, and studiously unreal, spatially distorted settings. Theme and technique meet on the highest level of film art. Read full review
100
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
For my money, this Freudian tale about a beautiful kleptomaniac and liar is one of Hitchcock's best accomplishments, certainly one of his most perverse. Read full review
100
Slant MagazineFernando F. Croce
The film’s themes, along with its avalanche of formal signifiers, are all fused together in the magisterial hunting sequence. Read full review
90
The New YorkerRichard Brody
Psychologically resonant, visually transcendent film. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Hitchcock's most disturbing film. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
80
EmpireKim Newman
This remains a compelling Hitchcock thriller but it's Tippi Hedron's remarkable central performance which steals the show. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Hitchcock's most liberated and poetic film, Marnie is a masterpiece of psychological mystery that encompasses all of the director's obsessions. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Marnie is merely a marginal work by director Alfred Hitchcock, meaning, naturally, that it's superior to all but the best works of almost every other director ever. [02 Jun 2000]
60
The New York TimesEugene Archer
At once a fascinating study of a sexual relationship and the master's most disappointing film in years. Read full review
60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
It's as sour a vision of male-female interaction as Vertigo, though far less bleak and universal in its implications. That said, it's still thrilling to watch, lush, cool and oddly moving. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Marnie is the character study of a thief and a liar, but what makes her tick remains clouded even after a climax reckoned to be shocking but somewhat missing its point. Read full review
50
LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen
This is a crazed and lurid character portrait that spends most of its time psychoanalyzing itself. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It's a must for those already enthralled by Rear Window, Vertigo, and the like, but a bit of a slog for anyone else. Read full review
40
TimeStaff (Not Credited)
When an unknown director turns out a suspense melodrama as dreary and unconvincing as this, moviegoers revel in the thought of what it might have been if Hitchcock had done it. It is disconcerting to come away from Mamie feeling precisely the same way. Read full review
40
The New YorkerPauline Kael
Hitchcock scraping bottom.
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