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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★★★ 4

  Marnie bleeds like an open wound, but you cannot die from this injury. The blood keeps spilling and spilling until it becomes the background of your life and informs your own existence. There's no patching up, moving on and healing so you dig and dig into your own flesh until you're more wound than person and any small prick can cause the blood to overflow once more. Marnie has never known another feeling her entire life.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★★★ 9

  "The legacy of Alfred Hitchcock is that he is a master of control; a director so in tune with suspense, time and pacing that he could make audiences suffer before unleashing a grand epiphany which made each and every person come back asking for more. This was true even in his previous film starring Tippi Hedren, The Birds. That movie was a box office smash with many of its images and isolated scenes, like the one of crows gathering on a power line, becoming iconic over time. Marnie is fascinating, because Hitchcock seems to have no control here. He's beholden to his worst curiosities and sexual perversions, and there's a moral unsureness about how to film characters like Rutland, who…

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★ 4

  Hitchcock at long last shakes completely loose of his own tightly modulated repression, his style splintering into its most abstract expression and letting slip his truly twisted attitudes on sex. No other Hitchcock cameo is as charged as the one that comes near the top of this, where he emerges from a hotel room simply to stare at Hedren walking down a hallway before turning to the camera and giving a split-second flinch of embarrassment, like a man caught touching himself in a porno theater. The entire film is one great recoil from the shame of self-recognition, a summarizing work that ties together everything from the director's German apprenticeship during the Expressionist era to his stripped-down TV work to the…

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★½ 35

  The masculine imposition of a movie’s director meets the unstoppable spirit of its lead actress in “Marnie.” 

  Hitchcock’s second collaboration with “Birds” star Tippi Hedren, who claimed that Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted her during both productions, “Marnie” is a psychological battleground of wills on and off screen. 

  It cannot be assumed that Hitchcock ever seriously would have been able to court then-Princess Grace (Kelly) to return to Hollywood for the lead part of Marnie. Beyond being just a scheming sociopath of a character, she is also subjected to a rape scene that Hitchcock, true to form, filmed with all the lustful eroticism of his murders. 

  It’s more plausible to read the director’s claims to be wooing the Princess for the…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 1

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  "You Freud, me Jane?"

  Love bleeds red. Hitchcock's ultimate cat-call of sexual perversion.

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 3

  tippi hedren plays a baltimore crip who wilds out whenever she sees the color red in this underrated masterpiece from alfred hitchcocc

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  Review by Carlos Valladares 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🌷 ★★★★ 3

  Every come-on Sean Connery says sounds like a threat; every threat Sean Connery says sounds like a come-on. A vivid film in which Connery is the perfect vessel for Hitchcock’s misogyny and his thoughts on his own misogyny. Connery’s charm always teetered on the edge of gilded danger which is used with acute prowess here. Tippi Hedren’s performance proves to an intriguing portrayal of buried traumas — swimming between stark mania and prim repression. There’s something stilted about her performance but it works with the ragged psychology of the character.

  For the men in the film — primarily and especially Connery’s ultra-rich, controlling, violent, lustful Mark — Woman is danger, intrigue, sin. And I say “Woman” because the women in…

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  Review by Hesse ★★★★★ 2

  Horse girl cinema

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  Review by mina 1

  [miranda priestly voice] traumatized blonde in a hitchcock film? groundbreaking.

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  Review by sakana1 ★★★★ 39

  Mention of sexual assault and shitty men ahead.

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  As someone who is both asexual and aromantic, I have really mixed feelings about Marnie. On one hand, it's exhilarating to see a woman who is explicitly not interested in sex with men (and, presumably, women as well, were that an option) on screen. While I don't quite share Marnie's abject terror of sex, I certainly share her aversion to it and, if a Scottish monster blackmailed me into marrying him, I could well respond exactly the way Marnie does, if/when he assumed that paper marriage meant a right to sex.

  On the other hand, however, as Hollywood was particularly found of doing in the 1960s (see: Chapman Report, The), Marnie's…