[David] Cronenberg created a startling film where the horror lies in the psyche: the conjoined relationship between two brothers, who share everything as if they were two parts of a whole, which pulls them both down in a spiral of madness.

| Apr 26, 2025

As brilliantly wry as it is disturbing and arcane.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 17, 2025

The force of superstition cast represents an accidental, perfect moment in an imperfect world. Without abandoning the clinical environment, Cronenberg draws on the myths of Janus and the miracles of the Satyricon...

| Nov 21, 2023

Cronenberg turns this based-on-fact story into a genuine creep show.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2023

A sensitive yet intellectually robust work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 11, 2023

[Dead Ringers] is a formidable achievement: it has a hushed, darkling tone that contrasts coolly with its distinctive production design and Jeremy Irons' all-out brilliant performance.

| May 8, 2023

The body horror genre is his touch and he makes it beautiful, now going into another area that scrambles the mind of what can be made out of it.

| Mar 7, 2023

It’s a great movie, but I warn you, if you’re not already depressed going into it, you will be when it’s over.

| Original Score: A | Aug 31, 2022

Minor pacing issues aside, Dead Ringers boasts a fantastic dual lead performance from Jeremy Irons.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2020

A creepy classic...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2020

"Dead Ringers" is by no means a date movie. This is one effed up little horror flick.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 11, 2020

[Irons'] performance no doubt exhausted the actor more than it impresses the audience.

| Aug 30, 2018

Irons' performance as the tormented twins is a tour de force. So is Cronenberg's complex camera work.

| Apr 30, 2018

Dead Ringers may be a beautifully structured and well-acted movie, but it certainly's isn't an easy film to watch. Still, if you like horror movies, this one will keep you on the edge of your seat, albeit squirming every minute.

| Dec 9, 2017

In a weird variation of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde theme, the Mantles are drawn relentlessly and frighteningly towards an inevitable and appalling fate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2014

This is arguably David Cronenberg's masterpiece.

| Oct 18, 2008

Irons gives a highly accomplished performance in a chilly knife-swapping psychodrama that remains among the director's leanest, meanest releases.

| Oct 8, 2008

Director David Cronenberg handles his usual fondness for gore in muted style.

| Sep 24, 2007

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.

| Sep 24, 2007

Impeccably executed, Cronenberg's first masterpiece is an unsettling film in which biological horror is entirely conveyed through pyschological exploration of character, masterfully played by Jeremy Irons in the best performance of his career.

| Original Score: A | Apr 30, 2007