Assessed on a level of tone and aesthetic, Villeneuve’s film is a stunning work. It is oppressive and unsettling, achieving Lynchian levels of discomfort and uncertainty.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 7, 2025

Enemy is brimming with non-commercial bravado that borders on being confessional. Just as Hitchcock made manifest his voyeuristic and controlling proclivities, Villeneuve exposes his own conflicted feelings towards women and monogamy.

| Aug 16, 2023

It will haunt the shit out of you

| Jan 14, 2022

It's a thought-provoking film that plays on the mind for days afterwards.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 27, 2021

A stylish and sinister (with a big tasty dollop of mystery on the side) that will keep audiences guessing long after they've left the theatre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Perhaps more important than the conundrum at the heart of the film is the skillfully crafted feeling of perplexity.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Jake Gyllenhaal meets his doppelgänger - or maybe it's also him - and mostly they argue...

| Oct 10, 2020

It's a beautiful, nightmarishly warped universe ripe for multiple readings and psychological explanations concerning hidden desires and oppositions.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Enemy is the type of film you just can't shake.

| Jul 20, 2019

Whilst the mysterious premise and sensory illusions make for a relatively mesmeric experience, Villeneuve struggles to repress the same heavy-handedness that's been present throughout his oeuvre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Enemy wants so much to be profound and provocative that it fails to ground itself in any way.

| Jan 16, 2019

This movie took a lot out of me last night.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 10, 2018

I'm a huge fan of Villeneuve and Gyllenhall, but this is just not a good movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 10, 2018

I liked Enemy a lot. I see so many movies each year, many of which are near-clones of previous movies, that it's a treat to see a movie with an unconventional take on things, even if it's disturbing.

| Aug 26, 2018

If "Enemy" is the weakest of the three Villeneuve films I've seen, the problem is its reliance on gratuitous weirdness to do its heavy lifting.

| Feb 17, 2018

While the film is finely crafted and boasts excellent performances from female leads Laurent and Sarah Gadon, everything is too restrained and tasteful and, in particular, too reliant on the suspense trope of the chase.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2017

It's all style - and what wonderful, skillful style it is - with little substance.

| Aug 15, 2017

Featuring a tremendous performance by Jake Gyllenhaal and bold direction from Denis Villeneuve, Enemy is a masterfully crafted film with a tricky but very fulfilling premise.

| Dec 7, 2016

Gyllenhaal embodies both men with care, building distinct characters that no amount of physical similarity can prevent discerning who is who.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 9, 2016

For those who enjoy a different kind of cinema, this is not to be missed.

| Feb 29, 2016