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  Review by vincent price was 6′4″ ★★★ 3

  me: hi how are y—

  any hitchcock character: let me tell you how i would plan the perfect MURDER. i love murder, i'm so random :)

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 15

  We've always been on the outside, pushed there, shoved out, damned for who we are. It's easy to remember the blacklisted communists, but they came after the queers, too. Even before the Code, even before the blacklist, we always had to hide it, to make it subtle, to hint at it without saying it. We became pretty good at it, and if you knew what you were looking for, you could find it. Men had wives and women had husbands, but the right tension here, the right gesture there, and the symbol of queerness was on the screen for us to relate to. We've always been on the edges, telling our stories without telling our stories; that's why the conventional…

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★★ 54

  “Strangers on a Train” ranks amongst Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest love stories. 

  Whether this love is between a man and a murderer or a man and murder, is a delineation that has the answerability of the film’s key debate on nature versus nurture in the making of a soul. 

  “Strangers,” deliberately crafted by Hitchcock with a homoerotic subtext between its lead characters of Guy (Farley Granger) and Bruno (Robert Walker), plays out in a duel over how men’s proclivities come to be. This alludes to the tendencies of both evil, and romantic attraction. 

  While such a linkage could easily run afoul in implicating homosexuality as on the same moral tier as murder, it’s important to remember that, in Hitchcock films, murder…

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★½ 33

  Guy is a hotshot tennis player who is married but in love with another woman. Bruno is a charming chap who loves his mom but also happens to be a sociopathic homicidal maniac. They meet as strangers on a train but after the ride ends it's only the beginning of this wild ride from the suspense master Alfred Hitchcock. How many of you have your name on your tie? The obvious sexual tension between Guy and Bruno. Gigantic bucket list. Murder swap? All aboard the train Mr. Hitchcock. Complex baby mama drama. Dirty sneaky Mrs. Haines. Payphone death threat. Real motherfuckers get manicures from their mothers. Words can't describe how gangsta Bruno looks in his Liberace-esque robe. Carnies. You can…

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  Review by Sam Thompson ★★★★ 4

  That shot of Bruno staring at Guy amongst the tennis crowd whilst everyone else’s head swings back and forth like a mii in wii sports is FREAKIN GLORIOUS.

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★★★ 7

  The closest thing Hitchcock has done to a Noir, Strangers on a Train is one of his most underrated. Right at the beginning of his best decade, it kicks off one of the best runs any director has had. I think one of the reasons it’s a les discussed Hitchcock is because it doesn’t have any big name stars, though the acting does not suffer because of it.

  I am so impressed by the screenplay here, the tension is just perfectly constructed. It has all of Hitchcock’s favorite things, from trains to being wrongly accused.

  I always appreciate Farley Granger more whenever I see him. I think in the 70s he would have been more of a star when the…

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  Review by iana ★★★★ 1

  hot take but this is better and more fun than some of hitchcock’s “best” films

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  Review by lucy ★★★★½

  those strangers sure were on a train

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★½

  A thrilling ride of relentless suspense from beginning to end, Strangers on a Train continues Alfred Hitchcock's unprecedented run of quality thrillers and is one of the most memorable films of his remarkable film career. An aesthetic work of filmmaking, it remains one of the greatest examples of its genre & is also immortal for its contribution to cinema as a whole.

  Based on the novel of the same name, Strangers on a Train concerns two strangers, a tennis player & a charming psychopath, who meet up on a train where the latter tells the former his theory of a 'perfect murder'. Things are however set in motion when the psychopath eventually goes on to implement his ideas for real.

  The direction…

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  Review by liam f ★★★ 1

  can't say I ever expected there to be a slow-motion shot of a dog licking someone's hand in a Hitchcock film but I've been wrong before

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 8

  Suspense is a weird thing and Mr. Hitchcock seems to be able to find it with the greatest of ease.

  Aided by a superb script, Hitchcock takes the fantastic premise to another level by instilling it with his unique style and amazing use of angles and perspective. It is ridiculous how far ahead of his time he was with this film in just about all aspects of filmmaking. He could turn something as simple as, oh let's say, a tennis match into edge of your seat stuff. Not to mention the merry-go-round ride at the end, which is a thing of beauty.

  Hitchcock's films have given us some very memorable villains, but somehow Robert Walker's Bruno gets overlooked. He's more…

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  Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★★★ 15

  All of Hitchcock's trademarks are here; Oedipus complexes, incest, a strong central motif that ties to a greater theme, an innocent man on the run, rich elites discussing murder as an artful or comical idea, and of course, murder itself. Of the aforementioned, the rich elites discussing murder as a playful topic is one that Hitch was fascinated with but never made numerous iterations of. Out of his filmography the only true companion to this idea is 1948's Rope, where two college graduates plan to kill their third "inferior" schoolmate to achieve the perfect murder. Between Rope's fascination of the perfect murder within high society's circles and Hitch's motifs found in his other films Shadow of a Doubt (circles and…