Psycho

"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 (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" 

"Mr. Hitchcock's picture slow buildups to sudden shocks that are old-fashioned melodramatics, however effective and sure (...) We feel his explanations are a bit of leg-pulling by a man who has been known to resort to such tactics in his former films. The consequence in his denouement falls quite flat" 

"An unusual, good entertainment, indelibly Hitchcock." 

"The suspense of his picture builds up slowly but surely to an almost unbearable pitch of excitement." 

"'Psycho' not only relocated horror from faraway Transylvania to the heart of the American family but was shockingly ironic from beginning to end." 

"Its power is not just that of a showman’s calibrated scare machine, but of a somber fugue on the trapped 20th-century creatures who inhabit its world (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" 

"'Psycho', in its dark and sordid extravagance, remains utterly contemporary, in its subject as well as in its production"