The joy to be found in Double Indemnity comes not from the plot, which is predictable to anyone that has seen any film noir, but in the trappings and genre elements that hang it all together.

| Original Score: A | Jul 8, 2024

Arguably one of the greatest works of film noir...

| Nov 30, 2023

Wilder explores the seamy underside of the American Dream in many of his films but never addresses it head on like he does in Double Indemnity.

| Mar 14, 2023

Billy Wilder’s sensational noir...

| Mar 8, 2023

I can only imagine how inadequate other actresses playing femme fatales feel when they have to live up to Stanwyck’s legend.

| Feb 9, 2023

The all-time vintage noir jewel...

| Jan 3, 2023

It’s not just writing and direction that ultimately cement the film’s status as a classic text, though; it’s the performance by Stanwyck as the sexy, manipulative, cold-blooded femme fatale.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 5, 2022

“Double Indemnity” is a largely uneven film that works in the end. Anyone looking for film noir can look no further, but if you’re looking for tons of suspense, check out Wilder’s other mystery classic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2022

...it’s a thrill to watch Stanwyck go to work and assert her dominance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 8, 2022

A topic that rather resemble something from France or Russia, not Hollywood. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2022

Double Indemnity, indeed, turned out to be a pretty good job. Good first of all because the story is told with much sureness and control.

| Aug 9, 2022

The murder isn’t the result of a battle between good and evil, but rather a natural response to a system that had no place for either Phyllis or Neff, both pawns in someone else’s game. Capitalism is the true villain of Double Indemnity.

| Jun 27, 2022

It made Stanwyck the queen bee of film noir and Phyllis Dietrichson is her definitive incarnation: a platinum blonde with a heart of brass and a tarnished soul.

| Jun 25, 2022

Billy Wilder's first great movie. It's quite unlike anything else the director ever made, a hard, smooth, crime film full of cynicism and lust and constantly alive and tingling.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 11, 2022

Double Indemnity is a ruthless and poignant cornucopia of the details that command our lives.

| May 26, 2022

There’s so much to admire here and so much technical craft on display.

| May 26, 2022

It does not engage the emotions, mercifully. Rather it invites the laying of odds as to whether the guilty parties will “get away with it.”

| Feb 17, 2022

An ingenious, cleverly written and well acted melodrama, which teems with suspense and thrills.

| Feb 17, 2022

Barbara Stanwyck Is consistently tough throughout and gives an excellent performance.

| Feb 17, 2022

Double Indemnity is positively the best murder film I’ve ever, ever seen. And it’s good old straight old, villainous murder without any psychological alleyways to get lost in.

| Feb 17, 2022