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The Birds

...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!

1963 · 2h · PG-13 Horror, Thriller
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

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Overview

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

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All reviews
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Drawing from the relatively invisible literary talents of Daphne DuMaurier and Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock has fashioned a major work of cinematic art, and "cinematic" is the operative term here, not "literary" or "sociological."

Andrew Sarris, Village Voice
Fresh

Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.

J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Rotten

Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film (1963), and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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