83
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
positive
13(87%)
mixed
2(13%)
negative
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Showing 15 Critic Reviews
100
The sense of moral responsibility in Hitchcock’s films may have never felt more imperative and succinct.
100
The bleakest of Hitchcock's films, this stark, deliberate probing of a man wrongfully accused is almost wholly based on fact, creating its drama from a celebrated New York City case.
By Staff (Not Credited)
FULL REVIEW 100
The Wrong Man, an overlooked masterpiece from his greatest decade, eschews suspense for the straight-up nightmare of an innocent man dragged through the justice system.
100
Hitchcock's most realistic film is also his ultimate "wrong man" suspense nightmare. [23 Jul 2010, p.C3]
By Staff (Not Credited)
90
This is a highly personal and even religious expression of Hitchcock concerning the vicissitudes of fate, predicated on his lifelong fear that anyone can be wrongly accused of a crime and placed behind bars.
90
Alfred Hitchcock draws upon real-life drama for this gripping piece of realism [from the Life magazine story The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson]. He builds the case of a NY Stork Club musician falsely accused of a series of holdups to a powerful climax, the events providing director a field day in his art of characterization and suspense.
By Staff (Not Credited)
FULL REVIEW 83
Henry Fonda's perplexity is palpable. [26 Jan 2001]
80
Hitchcock’s ultimate point evokes cosmic terror: innocence is merely a trick of paperwork, whereas guilt is the human condition.
80
Hitchcock's coldest, hardest movie until its controversial ending.
80
Hitchcock's most sombre film, unrelieved by his usual macabre humour; the black-and-white photography and the persecuted Fonda's sharply chiselled features lend an impressive documentary feel.
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