There are only so many directors in cinematography that the audience knows by name. Yes, film lovers can shake the names of many filmmakers, from Guillermo del Toro to David Lynn and many, many others among them. But for regular audiences, there are only a few who get the same name and recognition of big movie stars. There can be only four at the moment: Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese. Think about how much you want these authors, but they have made so much great, unforgettable, iconic films that the audience knows their work so well and their names that you can only list their surnames.

However, due to the fact that all of these men continue to make films in the era of gathering online reviews, and since there are so many critics that can be selected when you visit sites like metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, it is quite impossible for any of them to have the perfect film according to the standards of those pages. It is especially difficult with metacritic, as that page is possession of which critics and places it collects, combined with the fact that the reviews it collects are defined by their specific rating. If your review is positive, that's not enough; The perfect result should be a really perfect result. Case: Spielberg's highest rated film on the site is the "Shindler list" with 95. Tarantino has the same rating for his classic Pulp Fiction since 1994. Nolan's highest rated film is "Dankirk" with 94, while Scorsese is the highest ranked among the quartet thanks to His drama "evil streets" of 1973 netting 96.

However, there is a director who boasts not only one, but with a few "perfect" metacric films, and he is undoubtedly one of the most famous of all time: Alfred Hitchcock. And honestly? You may be a little surprised by his films with those elusive 100.

Hitchcock is one of the most famous filmmakers of all time, not only because he has used the uncertainty in his films so effectively and constantly. But Hitch was also recognizable to the audience because he did so, both in the introduction of episodes from his anthological TV series and through the camera he would make in his films. And what kind of movies he made, of course! Both before and after making a jump in the United States from England, Hitchcock featured incredible, tense and magical films that helped establish a foundation for future adventurous, thriller and horror films. As stated above, he has the most films with a perfect 100 of Metacrytic - Three of his films have that rank on the website.

Outside your head, you may have a few movies in mind when you think of Hitchcock's biggest work. First and foremost should be his horror film "Psycho" of 1960, not just because it contains one of the most memorable scenes of death of all time, in which The handsome Marion Crane (Janet Lee) is stabbed to death under the shower From a mysterious and seemingly female striker. "Psycho" is also an expert case in horror and uncertainty thanks to that scene and several others. But no matter how great the film is, it only has "Masha" 97 on Metacrytic.

Well, well, let's rewind just a year back to the adventure/Hitchcock thriller with a slam bang "north of the northwest", starring his longtime collaborator Kerry Grant. That 1959 film is an essential example of one of Hitch's favorite trumps: a case of wrong identity. In that film, a New Yorker is accused of murder and must run across the country to clear his name. And as a "psycho", he boasts a cinematographic image that burns in so many of our brains, while Grant is trying to run a murderous aircraft that deletes the genus in the middle of an otherwise empty corn field. It's a great, exciting movie and one of the best of Hitchcock ... and there is also no 100 on Metacritic, but comes at 98 years. In that case, what about the influential horror film of the 1963 "birds" director? And it's a movie filled with eerie subtones, unforgettable scenes, and there is no perfect MC score. Unfortunately, he scored only 90.

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We can say that the context is crucial, to be fair. We can also notice that the Metacritic pages for both "Notorious" - The 1946 thriller in which a federal agent is forced a widower to help shoot down Nazi in America after World War II - and "Rear window" - The 1954 thriller for a man who, while lying down a recent injury, seems to spy on a murder in the apartment building opposite his - everyone has less than 20 collapses. It is also true that most newer editions have at least 30 or something has been criticized. Then again, "Dizziness" There has been 32 criticism on his page, and that psychological thriller since 1958 (who revolves around a obsessed former police officer who falls in love with the woman to tail) has 100 on Metacrytic. The surprise to be taken here is less that Alfred Hitchcock has three films with perfect results on the website or that these are the happy recipients of the 100. (For this writer, only "dizziness" and "notorious" are really perfect, but none of them are creative slouches.) That's it ... Okay, well, Hitchcock just There are three perfect movies on the page? It should be much more than that.

However, it is worth noting that the three films with 100 are excellent collections both the personal inclinations of Hitchcock and his creative style. "Rear window" and "dizziness" everyone relying strongly on the voyeurist sequence on which Hitchcock wanted to satisfy. (Think of the stage in "Psycho" where Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates - at a time when we know very little about who he is - spies Marion Crane while she is undressing.) "Dizziness" can also boast stylish use The technicolor and unique sequences of dreams that speak of the obsessive psyche of the main character. Elsewhere, "Notorious" joins Hitchcock's love for intense romances (with Ingrid Bergman never better than that here) with his readiness to have a high demands from his leading ladies, with a federal grant agent serving as a kind - A critical attitude for the director.

Basically, if you need to go for a methacre to decide which films to look at this inappropriate master, these three would be the perfect place to start. It seems that sites like Metacrytic do not always reflect the perception of the audience, but when it comes to filmmaker like Alfred Hitchcock, in this case it is perfect.