sentences:  At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 100 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".Critic Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" attended the benefit premiere, and in his review called the film a "tense and exciting exercise" and Hitchcock a director whose work has a "maximum of build-up to the punch, a maximum of carefully tricked deception and incidents to divert and amuse.