Dead Again
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66 out of 100

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  • Starring: Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh
  • Summary: Mike Church (Branagh) is an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for tossing off wisecracks and tracking down missing persons. But Church doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim (Thompson) tormented by bloodcurdling nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist (Derek Jacobi) leads Church to a startling discovery: The source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer-husband Roman... in 1948. (Paramount)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    If "Henry V," the first film [Branaugh] directed and starred in, caused people to compare him to Olivier, "Dead Again" will inspire comparisons to Welles and Hitchcock - and the Olivier of Hitchcock's "Rebecca."
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Vincent Canby
    80
    A big, convoluted, entertainingly dizzy romantic mystery melodrama.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Non Credited)
    60
    However unlikely the twists and turns in this mystery, Dead Again moves briskly forward, never weighed down by any sense of seriousness.
  4. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    25
    A two-hour search for a pulse... A miscalculation from a prodigious talent who has forgotten that you squeeze the life out of romance when you don't give it space to breathe.

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