My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: October 25, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireChristian ZilkoJul 18, 2023
With My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock, Cousins powerfully makes the case that there’s nothing better than cinema itself for elevating a lie into art. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiOct 25, 2024
It offers up a deep and often fascinating dive into his oeuvre, utilizing a central conceit so nervy that most viewers will either marvel or recoil at its sheer audacity. Read full review
80
EmpireNeil AlcockJul 21, 2023
With its singular design and two-hour runtime, this isn’t aimed at casual moviegoers. But for film buffs and Hitchcock fans, it’s a refreshing, essential alternative to the usual fodder. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJul 21, 2023
What we end up with is both a rigorous commentary for the Hitch enthusiast and a useful primer for the newcomer. And we also get a character study. But of whom? The real man or the persona he invented for the public? Hitchcock would be delighted we are still asking that question. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenJul 18, 2023
As “Hitchcock” notes, his movies have been analyzed every which way and back again. Cousins’ fresh approach divides the work into six sections, an elegant capsule melding existential questions with the practical challenges and opportunities of big-screen storytelling. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 18, 2023
Well, point-by-point, clip-by-clip, this film remains brilliant. As ever, there is real evangelism in Cousins’s work and in My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock there is so much to learn and enjoy. You come away from it with your senses fine-tuned. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 28, 2024
In “My Name is Alfred Hitchcock,” Cousins gives us a new way of looking at Hitchcock, as a filmmaker with an evocative visual world, and a case could be made that it would be easier for viewers to appreciate that aspect of Hitchcock on a second or third viewing. Read full review
75
Washington PostTy BurrOct 25, 2024
Cousins succeeds at his main task. He brings back a genius in all his contradictions, and his movies in all their deadly delights. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldOct 24, 2024
Cousins’s attuned eye and ear keep us interested afresh in the Hitchcock magic. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 18, 2023
For all the gambits that end up feeling like gimmicks, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock never stops churning with ideas and ambition. The film pays Hitch the highest compliment by trying to follow his example and never do the expected thing. Read full review
60
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsJul 22, 2023
This archive clip-driven documentary comprises Cousins’ own informed and poetic postulations on the inner-workings of the Hitchcock corpus, as he heads on a jolly, thematically-inclined ramble through one of the great artistic legacies of the 20th century. Read full review
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