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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- There’s a superabundance of sparkling, often marvellously terse one-liners (when asked what the “O” stands for, Thornhill’s resigned and emotionally relevant answer is, “Nothing”) – and, my, how wittily Grant delivers them.
- 100EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonThis is Hitchcock's longest film and also his most self-referential. Little jokes abound about art and artifice, role play and reality, duty and duplicity and each viewing reveals something new to enhance the pleasure of watching the Master of Suspense at his most mischievous and assured.
- This film is pure entertainment.
- 100Slant MagazineBill WeberSlant MagazineBill WeberThe picture is hugely pleased with itself, but it’s too funny and expertly calibrated to mind in the least. Both Hitchcock and Grant raise relaxed confidence to masterpiece level here.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter Bradshaw[A] sublime classic.
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineNORTH BY NORTHWEST has everything--thrills, suspense, mystery, and black humor, as well as dark undertones of sexual exploitation and covert political machination.
- 100Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrA great film, and certainly one of the most entertaining movies ever made, directed by Alfred Hitchcock at his peak.
- The lines and the expert manipulation of the principals are tributes to the outstanding talents of Messrs. Lehman and Hitchcock.
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliNorth by Northwest is also surprisingly forthright when it comes to sexual matters. There aren't many euphemisms or double entendres in the interaction between Thornhill and Eve.