Dead Ringers Reviews
Top CriticThe kind of movie where you ask people how they liked it, and they say, 'Well, it was well made,' and then they wince.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
FilmFestivals.com
Trite, weird, ridiculous, uneventful, sick. Cronenberg at his worst.
| Original Score: 1/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
A spotty affair that sometimes makes sense and sometimes does not.
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| Original Score: 0 out of -4..+4
People like myself who find the character played by [Genevieve] Bujold (in one of her best performances) more interesting than either of the twins are bound to feel rather frustrated by the end.
Really sordid stuff that becomes ridiculous, painful, unbelievable and tedious.
Netflix
Quite possibly one of my favorite Cronenberg films.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
DVDTalk.com
Dead Ringers is not a fun or particularly upbeat film, but it does grab you by the collar and it sucks you right into the screen.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
ColeSmithey.com
Cronenberg and Irons achieve perfection in horror.
| Original Score: 5/5
Combustible Celluloid
This is arguably David Cronenberg's masterpiece.
Director David Cronenberg handles his usual fondness for gore in muted style.
An intense psychological drama which confronts [Cronenberg's] familiar preoccupations -- fear of physical and mental disintegration, mortality, the power struggle between the sexes -- without the paradoxical protection of visceral disgust.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's one of Cronenberg's more complex relationship tales, that puts a deadly spin on separation, loss and hopeless love.
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| Original Score: A
Watching Ringers is not unlike watching a critical operation -- unnerving but also enthralling.
Movieline
To watch Irons not merely inhabit two characters in the same frame but chart the dizzyingly subtle, complex dynamics between them -- their history, dependencies, fears -- is to see the thespian equivalent to splitting the atom.
Goatdog's Movies
Irons deserved an Oscar.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Filmcritic.com
Irons is startlingly off-kilter, his performance a veritable textbook example of deranged if icy brilliance
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
