Obsession
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 1, 1976 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
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Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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5
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5
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0
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50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Schrader and De Palma's tribute to Hitchcock's Vertigo may lack the misogyny and bloodbath sensationalism of De Palma's later work, but it's still dressed up in a mortifyingly vacuous imitation of the Master's stylistic touches. Read full review
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TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited
For a De Palma film, Obsession has much more suspense than violence, even if much of the premise and motivations are shamelessly culled from Hitchcock's Vertigo, as is composer Bernard Herrmann. The lack of originality, however, doesn't make Obsession any less effective, and the film has been generally overlooked in the spotty De Palma canon. Read full review
50
The New York TimesVincent Canby
The Schrader screenplay, based on an original story by Mr. Schrader and Mr. De Palma, is most effective when it's most romantic, and transparent when it attempts to be mysterious. Read full review
40
EmpireJustin Bowyer
The only obsession on display here is De Palma's - with Hitchcock. It's an unhealthy one too which results in an out of focus rip-off. Read full review
40
The New York TimesWalter Goodman
Whatever shred of credibility the movie retains is dispersed by the final, dead serious directorial hocus‐pocus. Read full review
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