Letterboxd — Your life in film

The first time I was in the "perfect movie except for the psychiatrist scene" camp, but on a second viewing I think even that worked...

It took me a few tries to get through this, but only because I was compelled to re-watch even before it was over, and continually restarting and rewinding. Dense and hypnotic in a way that's hard to compare to anything else I've seen.

A ridiculous plot even for Hitchcock, but I’m adding half a star on re-watch for how much fun everyone was having — especially John Dall, who reminds me of Tim Curry and is the only one acting at just the right level of over-the-topness for the whole movie

Jennie has the same origin story as Robin (broken wire killed acrobat parents) and the novel Portrait of Jennie is from 1940, the same year Robin first appeared in a Batman comic...

It’s fine, I think I’ve just seen too many Westerns

Pretty good! But it piles on way too much in the last half hour.

Not a fan of the 1956 remake, but this version is a lot better

I wrote that A History of Violence was "one of the few comic book movies that really understands comic books," and this is another one.

Almost too goofy to recommend, but I recommend it. Kind of like a stage comedy.

better than I expected!

It took me way too long to see this

A bit too loose for a real heist film and not loose enough for a comic caper, but very likeable and surprisingly well shot