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By Filipeneto (856) on 27 Jun 2018

The Birds is one of the greatest classics in Alfred Hitchcock's career…

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By Cthulhu_Fhtagn (2) on 18 Jun 2018

I found the movie quite boring actually, I can't understand the cult following this movie keeps getting, but that's just me I guess…

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By Daviddelnorte23 (74) on 18 Jan 2018

Otra obra maestra del maestro Hitchcock. Me encantan las historias que cuenta y sobretodo como las cuenta…

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By Macsmusic (32) on 12 Jan 2018

One of the most thrilling thrillers I've ever seen. This is surprising, as this movie is really old and black and white, but very true…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 11 Sep 2017

Director Alfred Hitchcock goes nattering on with an hour of some silly plot-boiling about a flirtatious society girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for The Guardian (2,969) on 27 Nov 2011

The essential Hitchcock movie, the purest and most confident, a brilliant distillation of the themes that had fueled him ever since he sent…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Jul 1997

Jaws before the world was ready, Hitch’s much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films—a triumph…

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By Tom Milne (86) for Time Out London (344) on 02 Jan 1997

This is Hitchcock at his best…

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By Emily Bernard (17) for Collider (1,032) on 04 May 1995

Despite some missed payoffs for rich storylines introduced early on, The Birds more than earns its legendary status, with its beautiful direction,…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for Empire (3,446) on 05 Feb 1989

A mysterious army of enemies, with no suggested motive and, what's worse, they're your friendly garden crows…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Oct 1986

As emblems of sexual tension, divine retribution, meaningless chaos, metaphysical inversion, and aching human guilt, his attacking birds acquire…

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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire (3,446) on 16 Oct 1984

Genuinely disturbing thriller classic from the master of suspense…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 May 1984

The Birds is here, and what a joy to behold a self-contained movie which does not feed parasitically on outside cultural references—Chekhov,…

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By James Powers (23) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Jun 1980

Alfred Hitchcock has concocted an elaborate tease in The Birds, as if to prove that suspense and thrills can be induced as much by the expectation…

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By Alastair Sooke (2) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 30 Sep 1979

The true genius of the film, based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, is the way Hitchcock makes the malevolent birds seem like manifestations…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Jun 1976

Making a terrifying menace out of what is assumed to be one of nature's most innocent creatures and one of man's most melodious friends, Mr…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 04 Oct 1974

If this works at all it’s because of the sound design: the cacophony of squawks and flapping over the opening credits, followed by incessant…

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