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Dead Ringers

1988

David Cronenberg

Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon ...

7.1

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Drama. Thriller Elliot (Jeremy Irons) and Beverly Mantle (Jeremy Irons) are identical twins and highly successful gynecologists. Elliot, the more aggressive and confident of the two, seduces women who come to the Mantle Clinic. When he tires of them, the women are passed on to the shy and passive Beverly, unaware of the substitution. When Beverly becomes attached to the troubled actress Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold), it upsets the equilibrium ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Cronenberg, who has begun to emerge as a master of body-related horrific fantasy, clearly understands that a small amount of medical mischief can be more unnerving than conventional grisliness.2	POS
United States	Max O'Connell IndieWire	"The most chilling film in Cronenberg’s filmography, as well as his most tragic and haunting."	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Really sordid stuff that becomes ridiculous, painful, unbelievable and tedious."	NEG
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Irons gives two virtuoso performances as the brothers, while Cronenberg proves again that few can match his originality or vision (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Watching 'Ringers' is not unlike watching a critical operation -- unnerving but also enthralling."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Parts of the script seem lifted out of one of those women’s magazine articles (...) It’s the kind of movie where you ask people how they liked it, and they say, 'Well, it was well made' (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"A relentlessly chilling, grotesque, and unmistakably Cronenbergian exercise in psychological horror"	POS
United Kingdom	Nigel Floyd Time Out	"An intense psychological drama which confronts [Cronenberg's] familiar preoccupations -- fear of physical and mental disintegration, mortality, the power struggle between the sexes -- without the paradoxical protection of visceral disgust."	POS

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