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

| Nov 30, 2023

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

| May 26, 2022

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

| Feb 17, 2022

A powerful, ruthless and almost cruelly exciting picture in which Fred MacMurray and Bareara Stanwyck do the finest acting of their respective careers.

| Nov 19, 2020

Barbara Stanwyck has given many interesting portrayals of femininity on the screen, but she has never presented as subtle and indelible a characterization as the one of Phyllis Dietrichson in "Double Indemnity."

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 18, 2020

Brilliantly and toughly directed by Billy Wilder.

| Nov 18, 2020

To director Billy Wilder goes the credit for the suspense of the picture Its excitement stays at high pitch and its tension keeps a spectator at seats edge throughout.

| Nov 18, 2020

A crime story of un usual power and with unusually intelligent direction.

| Nov 18, 2020

Everything about this picture is superb.

| Nov 18, 2020

There are three first-rate performances by Mr. Fred MacMurray, Mr. Edward G. Robinson, and Miss Barbara Stanwyck, who between them give fresh intensity to well worn situations.

| Nov 18, 2020

A melodrama of first-rate standard.

| Nov 18, 2020

Hollywood has scored many of its greatest successes in films of crime and violence. "Double Indemnity" can stand comparison with the best of them.

| Nov 18, 2020

In spite of the mundane locations, the movie takes place just outside reality, in a land of stark shadows and snappy talk. It's a world of rotten people, jumping at the chance to lose what soul they have left.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 17, 2020

This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films.

| Jan 3, 2018

Film noir is the most intoxicating of Hollywood cocktails, and none is more potent than Double Indemnity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 20, 2015

This expert night of the Hollywood soul is such a genre axiom it practically scans like a mid-'40s shopper's catalogue for noiristes ...

| Jul 29, 2014

Double Indemnity is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama.

| Mar 7, 2014

Writer/director Billy Wilder cements all the hallmarks of a style that comes into its own with this wicked and suspenseful portrait of capitalist greed and post-war anxiety.

| Original Score: 92/100 | Mar 26, 2009

Double Indemnity is a mystery story only in the sense that you can't wait to see what's going to happen next.

| Aug 18, 2008

If you like your dialogue hardboiled, your lighting shadowy, and your femmes fatales preposterously evil, then look no further: Billy Wilder's 1944 adaptation of James M Cain's insurance-scam novella.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2008