Vertigo has come to be considered Hitchcock's greatest film for its complex examination of romantic pathology.

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2010)

The film received mixed reviews upon initial release, but has garnered much acclaim since then and is now frequently ranked among the greatest films ever made, and often cited as a classic Hitchcock film and one of the defining works of his career. A detective with a fear of heights (James Stewart) is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves (Kim Novak) apparently falls to her death. Then he meets her double.
Vertigo is a double identity thriller which has many sequences in director Alfred Hitchcock's best style. A film as unsettling as the phobia it deals with, keeping its audience dizzy and off balance throughout. This ranks among his very best work.