Rope
Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 25, 1948 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
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Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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100
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Rope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
One of the cinema's supreme, most outrageously eccentric and audacious technical experiments: the legendary single shot movie. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineFernando F. Croce
A crime for most, a privilege for some is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Parkinson
A strange foreboding of what was to come from the Hitch. Read full review
80
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Perverse, provocative entertainment. Read full review
63
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Hitchcock liked to pretend that the film was an empty technical exercise, but it introduces the principal themes and motifs of the major period that would begin with Rear Window. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Hitchcock could have chosen a more entertaining subject with which to use the arresting camera and staging technique displayed in Rope. Theme is of a thrill murder, done for no reason but to satisfy a sadistical urge and intellectual vanity. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Stewart seems uncomfortable playing an intellectual; his dull performance never displays the disturbance or authority that it needs. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Alfred Hitchcock called Rope an “experiment that didn’t work out,” and he was happy to see it kept out of release for most of three decades. He was correct that it didn’t work out, but Rope remains one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted by a major director working with big box-office names. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
At all events, the picture takes on a dull tone as it goes and finally ends in a fizzle which is forecast almost from the start. Read full review
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