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Film · 1954 · Suspense
Rear Window
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
1954
★ 9.3 editorial score
Suspense has never been constructed more purely, and the real subject is the audience: Hitchcock traps you in one room with a man who cannot stop watching his neighbors.
“Setting his camera and James Stewart in an open casement that looks out upon the backyards and opposite buildings of a jumbled residential block off lower Fifth Avenue, the old thrill-billy has let the two discover a tingling lot about the neighbors' goings-on, including what appears to be a grisly murder by a sullen salesman across the way.”
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