Ray Pride Newcity Jul 16, 2026 7/10

Memorably sleek yet joyously tacky provocation... a cartoon of the world of Los Angeles porn in 1984 and his fantasies of driller-killer double-crosses.

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Catharine Rambeau Detroit Free Press Dec 8, 2025 4/10

Brian De Palma's much-heralded film is much ado about not very much, a good idea that opens strong and goes wrong within minutes.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 19, 2025 3.5/4

Brian De Palma’s most underrated film continues to deliver with its orgy of vicarious thrills, visceral pleasures, and comic riffs.

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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com May 4, 2025 3/5

…was considered to be a misfire, and despite the commercial nature of the film and music, didn’t catch a wave of interest despite the racy content. But it’s one of De Palma’s more interesting failures, with striking stagings and lots of visual interest.

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Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness Sep 26, 2024

As modern audiences tend to hem and haw over titillation, now seems like a good time to remember that it’s ok to watch, just maybe not get involved (without consent, of course).

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Sep 22, 2024

As a murder mystery, 'Body Double' is absurdly elaborate and at times simply absurd. As a piece of filmmaking, it is delirious.

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Noah Berlatsky Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jul 16, 2023

The plot keeps putting you with Jake as he flails ineffectually, frozen outside of the narrative, just like the viewer.

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Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting Apr 21, 2023 4/5

It’s pretty self-aware of DePalma and co-writer Robert J. Avrech to play on the former’s reputation for mistreating female characters by making the whole film about the male lead’s insecurities and inefficiencies.

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Alan Jones Starburst Jul 22, 2022

Loved Body Double for the same reasons I've loved all his other films: fluid, breath-taking camera work, glossy, sensual imagery, a gorgeous Pino Donnagio score and the satisfying feeling that an assured master manipulator has you eating out of his hand.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Aug 31, 2020 2/10

It's not so much like a Hitchcock thriller as it is a Mel Brooks comedy.

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Sergio Benítez Espinof May 7, 2020

'Body Double' remains as a palpable testimony of the immense influence that Alfred Hitchcock's cinema had on the generations that knew how to see in him the same as Truffaut. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Christy Lemire ChristyLemire.com Jun 18, 2018 3/4

It's an expertly crafted B-movie, a brisk and twisty mixture of the slick and sleazy, the glossy and grungy.

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Paul Attanasio Washington Post Jan 4, 2018

... "Body Double" finds Brian De Palma at the zenith of his cinematic virtuosity.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Jun 9, 2016 1/4

...ugly, unedifying exploitation cinema.

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Sean Burns WBUR’s Arts & Culture Feb 8, 2016

A spectacularly sleazy send-up that finds the puckish, thin-skinned director confronting his critics and doubling down on everything that upstanding, respectable people hate about Brian De Palma films.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jun 11, 2012 C

Sleaze dominates the thin plot and absurd story line.

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Caffeinated Clint Moviehole Sep 5, 2008 3/5

Classic De Palma. Stylish and Sexy.

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Brian Rentschler Screen Rant Dec 30, 2006 1/5

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Scott Weinberg DVD Clinic Nov 1, 2006 4/5

It's a mystery, a romance, a horror flick, and a straight-faced parody all rolled into one unique little movie.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Oct 13, 2006 3/4

...De Palma's expectedly grandiose directorial choices go a long way towards keeping things interesting...

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