Much like Dressed to Kill, it works as both a Hitchcock homage and a brilliantly crafted film in its own right. De Palma uses his entire bag of tricks - split-screens, voyeuristic POV, flashy montage - to support his fundamentally strange vision, and everything just fits. The climactic scene is essentially a grainy, black-and-white, surrealist nightmare, and it's one of the best moments in the film. Margot Kidder's Québécois accent is iffy, but that's a trivial complaint. This is a masterpiece.

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Sisters, Brian De Palma's second feature film (his first is the comedy The Wedding Party with Robert DeNiro in his first starring role), is a very Hitchcockian mystery thriller (with a score by Bernard Herrmann, no less) starring Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt (now the executive producer of American Horror Story). To say too much about the plot would spoil it, but it is a fascinating exercise in style and a compellingly enjoyable film. *B+*