Psycho: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 8 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

100

Always worth another look, especially on the big screen.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

100

What makes Psycho immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater, is that it connects directly with our fears.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece blends a brutal manipulation of audience identification and an incredibly dense, allusive visual style to create the most morally unsettling film ever made.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

An unusual, good entertainment, indelibly Hitchcock, and on the right kind of boxoffice beam.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Mary Elizabeth Williams Salon.com (Top Critic)

All those who still get a chill every time they step into a hotel shower, say aye. That, you see, is the power of Psycho.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

88

With the exception of Halloween, no latter-day horror/thriller has been capable of generating as many goosebumps.
Full Review » 12 years ago
TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Sarah Wenk Common Sense Media

100

Horror masterpiece definitely isn't for young kids.
Full Review » 1 year ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

88

...lives up to its reputation as one of the most entertaining and suspenseful horror films of all time...
Full Review » 2 years ago
Bill Weber Slant Magazine

100

Hitchcock's manipulative classic of "pure cinema" does have a heart that pumps human blood, in its sublime parlor scene between Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Keith Uhlich Time Out New York

100

The best that can be said is there are bats in the belfry and a well-preserved corpse in the basement. What else can one do but scream?
Full Review » 2 years ago
R. L. Shaffer IGN DVD

100

Masterful suspense and horror from one of the greats.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Total Film

100

It's a darkly amusing, manipulative film that's still compelling in its vision of human desperation.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Kate Muir Times [UK]

100

Look into Janet Leigh's eye after the shower scene and be amazed how fresh this black-and-white ghoulish chic seems in the saccharine surroundings of modern cinema.
Full Review » 2 years ago
David Parkinson Radio Times

100

This is easily the most shocking film produced by the "Master of Suspense."
Full Review » 2 years ago
David Jenkins Time Out

100

It blazed a bloody trail for the much-loved slasher cycle, but it also assured us that a B-movie could be A-grade in quality and innovation.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

100

Alfred Hitchcock should be credited with making the first slasher film for the ground-breaking narrative template he created for "Psycho."
Full Review » 3 years ago
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

100

I'd wager there aren't any films that have been more analyzed than Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Steve Biodrowski ESplatter

...one of the great achievements in the horror genre.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Sean Axmaker Seanax.com

Time may have dulled the shock, but the craft is as impressive as ever.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

100

The music, the setting, the shower scene, the mother in the cellar... everything about this iconic film has passed into cinema history.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Will Harris Bullz-Eye.com

80

You can bet that everyone who's ever seen it immediately feels their heart start to pound when they're in the shower and hear someone enter the bathroom.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television

Hitchcock classic
Full Review » 6 years ago
Leo Goldsmith Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Janet Leigh, stalking around in pointy brassieres, making bird-gestures, and flirting with the coprophobic Perkins, is one of cinema's most deliciously perverse pleasures.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Geoff Andrew Time Out

A masterpiece by any standard.
Full Review » 6 years ago