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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyRope is not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary.
- 100Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonOne of the cinema's supreme, most outrageously eccentric and audacious technical experiments: the legendary single shot movie.
- 88Slant MagazineSlant MagazineA crime for most, a privilege for some is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonA strange foreboding of what was to come from the Hitch.
- 80Time OutTime OutPerverse, provocative entertainment.
- 63Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrHitchcock liked to pretend that the film was an empty technical exercise, but it introduces the principal themes and motifs of the major period that would begin with Rear Window.
- 60TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineStewart seems uncomfortable playing an intellectual; his dull performance never displays the disturbance or authority that it needs.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAlfred Hitchcock called Rope an “experiment that didn’t work out,” and he was happy to see it kept out of release for most of three decades. He was correct that it didn’t work out, but Rope remains one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted by a major director working with big box-office names.
- 50The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherAt all events, the picture takes on a dull tone as it goes and finally ends in a fizzle which is forecast almost from the start.