98
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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderThis is vintage Hitchcock, with the pacing and superb editing that marked not only his 30s style but eventually every film that had any aspirations whatever to achieving suspense and rhythm.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawA pleasure.
- 100The New York TimesFrank S. NugentThe New York TimesFrank S. NugentIf it were not so brilliant a melodrama, we should class it as a brilliant comedy.
- 100Time OutTime OutFunny, creepy (in a way already peculiar to Hitchcock) and always entertaining, both in the moment and in the realisation that you’re enjoying a particularly witty and playful script.
- 100The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonIt's typical Hitchcock: taut, morbid, stylish, and determined to confound expectations all the way up to the final shot.
- It's the greatest-ever comedy-thriller, the greatest film set on a train, a faultlessly cast mirror held up to the nation in the year of Munich.
- This is one of Hitchcock's finest British films, a classic mystery that manages to combine humor with a genuine sense of menace--not to mention the kinds of characters that everyone dreams of meeting on a Central European train journey.