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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91IndieWireChristian ZilkoIndieWireChristian ZilkoWith My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock, Cousins powerfully makes the case that there’s nothing better than cinema itself for elevating a lie into art.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawWell, point-by-point, clip-by-clip, this film remains brilliant. As ever, there is real evangelism in Cousins’s work and in My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock there is so much to learn and enjoy. You come away from it with your senses fine-tuned.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenAs “Hitchcock” notes, his movies have been analyzed every which way and back again. Cousins’ fresh approach divides the work into six sections, an elegant capsule melding existential questions with the practical challenges and opportunities of big-screen storytelling.
- 80The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeThe Irish TimesDonald ClarkeWhat we end up with is both a rigorous commentary for the Hitch enthusiast and a useful primer for the newcomer. And we also get a character study. But of whom? The real man or the persona he invented for the public? Hitchcock would be delighted we are still asking that question.
- 70Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonFor all the gambits that end up feeling like gimmicks, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock never stops churning with ideas and ambition. The film pays Hitch the highest compliment by trying to follow his example and never do the expected thing.
- 60Little White LiesDavid JenkinsLittle White LiesDavid JenkinsThis archive clip-driven documentary comprises Cousins’ own informed and poetic postulations on the inner-workings of the Hitchcock corpus, as he heads on a jolly, thematically-inclined ramble through one of the great artistic legacies of the 20th century.