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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesThe Double isn't an original idea. It wasn't even in Dostoyevsky's time. But it's a great story. And Ayoade has produced a brilliant copy.
- 91The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthTotally bonkers, hilarious and wickedly clever, The Double is special and singular filmmaking at its best.
- 80EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesGiven the obvious influences on The Double, it could have felt like a facsimile of other films. Instead, it has enough individuality, imagination and idiosyncratic invention to identify it as a true original.
- 78Film.comCalum MarshFilm.comCalum MarshThe Double taps into a deep reservoir of psychic turmoil even as it navigates the script’s abundant jokes, and the nightmare of the heart of the film is doubtless universal.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreEisenberg, perfectly, pliably put upon, is the engine that drives this picture.
- 60The TelegraphTim RobeyThe TelegraphTim RobeyIt's a bureaucratic noir nightmare that may put you more readily in mind of Kafka, albeit with a tone of tongue-in-cheek bleakness that's bracing and funny – at least at first.
- 60VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangUndeniably impressive as a visual-psychological construct, The Double is ultimately a rigid, one-joke movie that feels hard pressed to sustain any sort of momentum over the course of its 92-minute running time.
- 60Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounAyoade tips his hat to so many other filmmakers and writers that he leaves little room to consider anything other than what a good job he’s doing of distilling all his references into an effective Pinterest board of paranoia and alienation.
- 38Slant MagazineChris CabinSlant MagazineChris CabinWhatever the film's interest may be in the marginalized, writer-director Richard Ayoade never alludes to what would even be worth fighting for in this nightmarish industrial landscape.