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Read from 31 comments (28 from Metacritic, 3 from TMDB reviews) β 12 of them described how it moves.
β steady β Holds one level all the way. Hard going most of the way through. Very little of it ever resolves.
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βwhat a frenzied experience "The Birds" can still beβ
John Chard Β· TMDB reviews β
βthe scene at the end where she gets attacked by birds and can't escape through the door because she is blocking the door herself like what the heck move out the way and open the DOOR!β
rive040 Β· Metacritic β
βstarting with isolated incidents such as a single gull attacking Melanieβ
allietheauthor Β· Metacritic β
βOne of the filmβs most chilling sequences comes when Melanie waits outside a school, unaware that behind her, dozens of crows are silently gathering on the jungle gym.β
allietheauthor Β· Metacritic β
βa slow moving game of flirty pranksβ
drqshadow Β· Metacritic β
βa breakneck avian assaultβ
drqshadow Β· Metacritic β
Read 26 Aug 2026 Β· confidence 78% Β· scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score Β· how this works
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βGenuinely disturbing thriller classic from the master of suspense.β
Kim Newman, Empire Β· 100
βThe essential Hitchcock movie, the purest and most confident, a brilliant distillation of the themes that had fueled him ever since he sent the lodger creeping to his upstairs room.β
Xan Brooks, The Guardian Β· 100
βThe true genius of the film, based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, is the way Hitchcock makes the malevolent birds seem like manifestations of his characters' mental unease.β
Alastair Sooke, The Telegraph Β· 100
βThis is Hitchcock at his best. Full of subterranean hints as to the ways in which people cage each other, it's fierce and Freudian as well as great cinematic fun.β
Tom Milne, Time Out London Β· 100
βAs emblems of sexual tension, divine retribution, meaningless chaos, metaphysical inversion, and aching human guilt, his attacking birds acquire a metaphorical complexity and slipperiness worthy of Melville. Tippi Hedren's lead performance is still open to controversy, but her evident stage fright is put to sublimely Hitchcockian uses.β
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader Β· 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 26 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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βthe scene at the end where she gets attacked by birds and can't escape through the door because she is blocking the door herself like what the heck move out the way and open the DOOR!β
rive040about 75β100% inread it β
βstarting with isolated incidents such as a single gull attacking Melanieβ
allietheauthorabout 0β15% inread it β
βOne of the filmβs most chilling sequences comes when Melanie waits outside a school, unaware that behind her, dozens of crows are silently gathering on the jungle gym.β
allietheauthorabout 33β66% inread it β
βa slow moving game of flirty pranksβ
drqshadowabout 0β50% inread it β
βwhat a frenzied experience "The Birds" can still beβ
John Chardabout 75β100% inread it β
βCertainly has some creepy imagery and the acting was mostly passable, and I guess it works as a B-movie horror-thriller, but I never really found the birds all that terrifying. Probably the lower end of the Hitchcock movies I've seen. **3.25/5**β
JPV852read it β
βTerrific horror film! Terrific film! But my impression is that The Birds is not really about the birds. To me this movie is all about the characters, their stories and finding something they didn't expect to find in each others. They felt real to me, they evolved and changed alongside their relationship with each others. In the end, even though they are going through hell, they managed to find some closure.β
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