Fritz Lang’s psycho thriller tells the story of a woman who marries a stranger with a deadly hobby and through their love he attempts to fight off his obsessive-compulsive actions.
[Lang's] direction is masterly, imposing meanings and tensions through images that are spare, resonant and astonishingly beautiful. A remarkable film.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
4 Apr 2011
rotten:
Mental complexities of the principals makes it sometimes hard to sort out the various motivations used to spin the tale.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
4 Apr 2011
fresh:
Mr. Lang is still a director who knows how to turn the obvious, such as locked doors and silent chambers and roving spotlights, into strangely tingling stuff.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
4 Apr 2011
fresh:
Probably the most psychoanalytically oriented of his features, and because it's Lang, the murkiness is mainly a strength.