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

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

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

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

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

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

A mash-up of the Master of Suspense and newsreel from the Cold War, playing on Hitchcock's obsession with doppelgngers.

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

A documentary that practically defies description, Grimonprez's film is playful, provocative and very, very watchable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2010

Its laboured contention that the cold war era was an age of unique and privileged anxiety seems dubious. (Every age in its different but equal way is an age of anxiety.)

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2010

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2009