While Hitchcock covered the relationship between The Fatman and Janet Leigh on the Psycho set, The Girl explores the director's bizarre obsession with Tippi Hedren while making The Birds and Marnie. Unlike Hopkins & co, Toby Jones and Sienna Miller never really distract you with their starpower and instead allow the viewer to believe in the parts they're playing. Unfortunately the film doesn't really do a great job at evenly juggling the two leads and instead fails in really letting us inside the lives of either of them. Still, it's better than Hitchcock but could have benefited from not feeling so rushed.
3½ mechanical birds out of 5
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