There are times when the "plot" seems disjointed - not all of the clips run smoothly, but in the end it all works.

| Mar 8, 2019

Double Take is deadly serious in its scrutiny of politics, anxiety and the media, but it's also a witty entertainment that responds to Hitchcock with much of the master's own lightness and mischief.

| Jul 6, 2018

Double Take is a cunning hybrid-call it a psycho-doc. Playful yet tempered with paranoia, curiously the whole thing nevertheless seems more nostalgic than cautionary.

| Nov 13, 2013

... more entertaining than enlightening.

| Mar 25, 2011

The message is muddy, but that doesn't feel as important as the delivery method, which ends up redeeming this as a film experiment that succeeds for its sense of derring-do if nothing else.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 23, 2010

Hitchcock was a master of mischief and misdirection, and no film so thoroughly infused with his spirit could be dull or predictable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2010

the most indefinable film currently playing in theaters; it also happens to be the most madly entertaining

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 3, 2010

By contrasting Hitchcock's explanation of "The MacGuffin" with 온라인카지노추천 commercials and old arguments over who's winning the Cold War, Grimonprez makes a case for how historical events can be driven by threats more perceived than actual.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 3, 2010

Mildly entertaining, stylishly edited, but neither synthesized nor provocative enough to be a truly enlightening experience

| Original Score: 4.85/10 | Jun 2, 2010

A marvelous, multi-media mockumentary about Hitchcock certain to add to the already lofty stature of the revered cinema icon.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 2, 2010

Johan Grimonprez sure knows his Hitchcock! Double Take is a dazzling and dizzying avant-garde documentary homage--and then some.

| Jun 2, 2010

A way of showing how the Master of Suspense's work captured the zeitgeist, and how the zeitgeist responded by getting dumberer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2010

The connections that Grimonprez makes among his various areas of inquiry seem mightily tenuous.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 31, 2010

Johan Grimonprez ("dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" - 1997) proves himself a master of the art of montage as he balances compounding strands of logic in a seemingly staggering display of seamless critical analysis. "Double Take" is an art film of the highest order. Do

| Original Score: A | May 21, 2010

Drawing hazy parallels between the Cold War and the rise of consumerist culture, the film implies ideological battles are won by those best able to exploit the media in insidious ways.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2010

Double Take is a very entertaining film and is at times very funny -- aside from the Hitchcock intros, there is also the strange comedy double act of Nixon and Khrushchev.

| Apr 8, 2010

So here it is: an essay film it's okay to like.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 7, 2010

Hitchcock fans and die-hard moviegoers will enjoy this offbeat collage-style movie, which is expertly assembled but struggles to engage us with a coherent story or theme

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2010

A single viewing only scratches the surface of this dazzling montage-based Hitchcock quasi-doc.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 2, 2010

This is arguably a rather cerebral and indulgent reverie, but there is fascination, and something genuinely disturbing, in every frame.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2010