Reviews for this film from our members:
- Beth Accomando @ KPBS Cinema Junkie
- Excerpt: The Double is far from conventional and although dark in tone it feels like a breath of fresh air in terms of its willingness to take risks. Ayoade reaffirms yet again that he is a talent to watch.
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Racket
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: It may defy explanation, but “The Double” is a solid effort and interesting film. Even in the wake of the release of Denis Villeneuve’s doppelganger thriller “Enemy,” it’s a wholly unique film that’s worth checking out.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Set in a dystopian London of underground cube farms, block house apartments depressing cafes and dingy alleys, Ayoade’s sophomore film plays a lot like a murky, schizophrenic version of Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.”
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘The Double’ is an odd movie about a lonely young man whose life is thrown off-balance when his double takes a job in his office.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti with Punctuation
- Excerpt: “I have no idea what just happened?”
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A painfully funny odyssey of personal ineffectualness that is bitterly wonderful in how it revels in the decrepit horror of the everyday world.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Who knew Fyodor Dostoyevsky could be such a laugh riot? An adaptation of the Russian author’s 1846 novella, “The Double” triples itself as an existential allegory, an absurdist black comedy, and something sinister and Kafka-esque.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ DVD Talk
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- [New – 2/19/15] | Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: Dystopian bureacracy lacks the grandeur of Brazil and the warmth of Jeunet/Caro
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: A pastiche-heavy, ultimately stunning film that seems like a necessary step for Ayoade to assert himself as an auteur.
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The most fun you’ll have laughing into the void since ‘Brazil.’
- Ron Wilkinson @ Its Just Movies
- Excerpt: The reigning king of dark comedies for 2014, “The Double’ picks up where “The Office” leaves off.
