As modern audiences tend to hem and haw over titillation, now seems like a good time to remember that it’s ok to watch, just maybe not get involved (without consent, of course).

| Sep 26, 2024

As a murder mystery, 'Body Double' is absurdly elaborate and at times simply absurd. As a piece of filmmaking, it is delirious.

| Sep 22, 2024

The plot keeps putting you with Jake as he flails ineffectually, frozen outside of the narrative, just like the viewer.

| Jul 16, 2023

It’s pretty self-aware of DePalma and co-writer Robert J. Avrech to play on the former’s reputation for mistreating female characters by making the whole film about the male lead’s insecurities and inefficiencies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2023

Loved Body Double for the same reasons I've loved all his other films: fluid, breath-taking camera work, glossy, sensual imagery, a gorgeous Pino Donnagio score and the satisfying feeling that an assured master manipulator has you eating out of his hand.

| Jul 22, 2022

It's not so much like a Hitchcock thriller as it is a Mel Brooks comedy.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 31, 2020

'Body Double' remains as a palpable testimony of the immense influence that Alfred Hitchcock's cinema had on the generations that knew how to see in him the same as Truffaut. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

It's an expertly crafted B-movie, a brisk and twisty mixture of the slick and sleazy, the glossy and grungy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2018

... "Body Double" finds Brian De Palma at the zenith of his cinematic virtuosity.

| Jan 4, 2018

...ugly, unedifying exploitation cinema.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 9, 2016

A spectacularly sleazy send-up that finds the puckish, thin-skinned director confronting his critics and doubling down on everything that upstanding, respectable people hate about Brian De Palma films.

| Feb 8, 2016

[UPDATED 2024 4K + BLU-RAY REVIEW] Brian De Palma’s most underrated film continues to deliver with its orgy of vicarious thrills, visceral pleasures, and comic riffs.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 24, 2013

Sleaze dominates the thin plot and absurd story line.

| Original Score: C | Jun 11, 2012

Classic De Palma. Stylish and Sexy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It's a mystery, a romance, a horror flick, and a straight-faced parody all rolled into one unique little movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2006

...De Palma's expectedly grandiose directorial choices go a long way towards keeping things interesting...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006

Emblematizes De Palma's refusal to take Hollywood seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2006

Body Double, while not his finest, is the best candidate as Brian De Palma's signature film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 29, 2006

enough to portend the downfall of civilization... a guilty pleasure

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2006