Double Take
Kino International | Release Date: June 4, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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5
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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88
New York PostLou Lumenick
Like the Master of Suspense's best films, Double Take (which makes great use of Bernard Herrmann's haunting "Psycho" score) is an intellectual puzzle that also works as a thoroughly accessible entertainment. Read full review
80
EmpireIan Freer
A documentary that practically defies description, Grimonprez's film is playful, provocative and very, very watchable. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJustin Lowe
Despite its many ominous implications, Grimonprez also infuses Double Take with sly wit, inserting scenes from the TV program showcasing Hitchcock's wry sense of humor and the exaggerated domesticity of commercials sponsored by Folgers Coffee. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Although it is composed mainly of archival footage and touches on a great many actual events, Double Take, as you may already have gathered, is not quite a documentary. It is, instead, a meditation on a series of loosely related themes drawn together, somewhat tenuously, by the familiar yet elusive sensibility that Hitchcock brought to Hollywood and then to American television. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Any 15-minute stretch of Double Take proves as enlightening as any other--more like a museum installation than a movie. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
It’s a neurotic treatise that simply adds to our cultural dementia instead of illuminating it. Read full review
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