Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Winds up with a scene in which a merry-go-round goes wild, spins like a pin wheel, and crashes in a gaudy blaze of explosions that no earthly carrousel could touch off. The movie itself is the same way: implausible but intriguing and great fun to ride.
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TIME Magazine,
30 Aug 2009
rotten:
...his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Given a good basis for a thriller in the Patricia Highsmith novel and a first-rate script, Hitchcock embroiders the plot into a gripping, palm-sweating piece of suspense.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
13 Feb 2001
fresh:
Hitchcock was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several famous sequences in Strangers on a Train.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
15 Jan 2004
fresh:
Perhaps Strangers on a Train still hasn't yielded all its secrets.