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  Review by sarah ★★★ 3

  me: hi how are y—

  any hitchcock character: let me tell you how i would plan the perfect MURDER. i love murder, i'm so random :)

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  Review by Sam Thompson ★★★★ 6

  That shot of Bruno staring at Guy amongst the tennis crowd whilst everyone else’s head swings back and forth like a mii in wii sports is FREAKIN GLORIOUS.

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  Review by sydney ★★★★★ 2

  fellas... is it gay to murder the wife of a man you just met on a train?

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 20

  We've always been on the outside, pushed there, shoved out, damned for who we are. It's easy to remember the blacklisted communists, but they came after the queers, too. Even before the Code, even before the blacklist, we always had to hide it, to make it subtle, to hint at it without saying it. We became pretty good at it, and if you knew what you were looking for, you could find it. Men had wives and women had husbands, but the right tension here, the right gesture there, and the symbol of queerness was on the screen for us to relate to. We've always been on the edges, telling our stories without telling our stories; that's why the conventional…

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★½ 33

  Guy is a hotshot tennis player who is married but in love with another woman. Bruno is a charming chap who loves his mom but also happens to be a sociopathic homicidal maniac. They meet as strangers on a train but after the ride ends it's only the beginning of this wild ride from the suspense master Alfred Hitchcock. How many of you have your name on your tie? The obvious sexual tension between Guy and Bruno. Gigantic bucket list. Murder swap? All aboard the train Mr. Hitchcock. Complex baby mama drama. Dirty sneaky Mrs. Haines. Payphone death threat. Real motherfuckers get manicures from their mothers. Words can't describe how gangsta Bruno looks in his Liberace-esque robe. Carnies. You can…

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  Review by lucy ★★★★½ 2

  those strangers sure were on a train

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  Review by Timcop ★★★★★ 4

  Barbara is the equivalent of whatever a murder podcast nerd was at that time.

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  Review by Matt The Snapper ★★★★★

  That carnival scene might be one of the best scenes Hitchcock ever directed.

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  Review by liam f ★★★ 1

  can't say I ever expected there to be a slow-motion shot of a dog licking someone's hand in a Hitchcock film but I've been wrong before

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  Review by iana ★★★★ 1

  hot take but this is better and more fun than some of hitchcock’s “best” films

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★★ 56

  “Strangers on a Train” ranks amongst Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest love stories. 

  Whether this love is between a man and a murderer or a man and murder, is a delineation that has the answerability of the film’s key debate on nature versus nurture in the making of a soul. 

  “Strangers,” deliberately crafted by Hitchcock with a homoerotic subtext between its lead characters of Guy (Farley Granger) and Bruno (Robert Walker), plays out in a duel over how men’s proclivities come to be. This alludes to the tendencies of both evil, and romantic attraction. 

  While such a linkage could easily run afoul in implicating homosexuality as on the same moral tier as murder, it’s important to remember that, in Hitchcock films, murder…

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  Review by ro ★★★★ 5

  why is no one talking about that bruno was in love with guy