Shadow of a Doubt 1943

Critics score:
100 / 100

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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Peels back the welcoming warmth and sincere innocence of small-town life to reveal the gullibility and the naivete underneath; it's a fiction about the perpetuation of fictions. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Read more

TIME Magazine: A superb film. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: One of Hitchcock's finest films of the '40s. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Hitchcock deftly etches his small-town characters and homey surroundings. Read more