Wryly entertaining as well as skillfully executed and thematically complex.

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2010)

A photo-journalist (James Stewart), confined to his room by a broken leg, is convinced he has seen a murder committed in a room on the other side of the court.
Rear Window is an artificial but gripping suspense thriller, which has plenty to say about voyeurism and the reality of what is observed from a distance. Delightfully, each window opposite provides a glimpse of a miniature drama that resolves itself (or not) during the film's course. Intriguingly, Alfred Hitchcock added a sexually knowing romance between Stewart and Grace Kelly to this intriguing premise. It all adds up to one of the director's most brilliant films. It received four Academy Award nominations, was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1997.