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Film Fiber: Frenzy brings it all back home (and shouldn’t)
February 2, 2013 – 12:02 PM | 16 Comments
Film Fiber: <I>Frenzy</I> brings it all back home (and shouldn’t)

(or, “Hitchcock Completism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be”)
Frenzy is adequate. It’s not great; it’s not quite good, even. Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film is miles better than the stillbirth that preceded it in his …