Dead Ringers
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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21

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  1. BlakeP
    Nov 1, 2012
    4
    I'm probably in the minority here, but I felt the bleak, intense, and all too gory "Dead Ringers" is too twisted for its own good. Cronenberg directs with style and it exemplifies his skill as a director, and Irons gives two, distinct and excellent characterizations, but all the gloominess makes it no fun.
  2. YuriH.A.
    Jan 27, 2004
    10
    Again : one of the all-time cinema classics. Irons perfect acting + good music + sometimes perfect photography and heart depressive plot ... it's more than twins taking drugs, this movie makes you feel just as the twins are supposed to feel through their downward spiral...and their end.
  3. BillyO.
    Jan 3, 2004
    6
    It was very strange and interesting but there wasn't much plot. Nothing happened. The brothers had sex with the same girl and they then both became drug addicts. That is about the entire movie.
  4. BillyO.
    Jan 3, 2004
    6
    It was very strange and interesting but there wasn't much plot. Nothing happened. The brothers had sex with the same girl and they then both became drug addicts. That is about the entire movie.
  5. D&KH.
    Jul 8, 2006
    3
    Nothing was great about this movie. It did not "pull me in".
  6. [Anonymous]
    Jun 23, 2003
    10
    One of the all-time cinema classics.
  7. PatC.
    Jan 13, 2004
    8
    Such impromptu examinations of the unexpected are one of a shrinking list of reasons to not outlaw the film industry.
  8. AustinC.
    Dec 10, 2005
    10
    Captiating from the opening score, the movie is a masterpiece.
  9. PatricioM.
    Apr 26, 2003
    10
    The movie was a complete delight, especially the muscial background. The acting was good also, and the subject matter blew me away. It was a very uplifting movie and I was entrawled by it. I found it thrilling, epecially the surgical procedure.
  10. YoonC.
    Sep 15, 2003
    8
    Strange and impenetrable but fascinating as filmic exercise nevertheless. Genuinely unnerving and perhaps Cronenberg's most formidable achievement at least in mood.
  11. MrJ
    Oct 25, 2006
    9
    Captivating and depressing in the best way. So sad, you can feel the heartbreak of the brothers, and the sadness is that the heartbreak is for each other, and not the girl. Astonishing, beautiful, sad, brilliant.

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Metascore
86 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    70
    The movie is really almost tasteful considering [Cronenberg’s] stomach-churning capacities. He always does it for a higher purpose, though, which is why his films sometimes win wider audiences. This one probably won't cross over, because it's too queasy. [23 Sept 1988]
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  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    88
    It's almost too rich in ideas for its own good: The sense of concentration and proportion isn't there. But it remains an astonishing, magnetic, devastating piece of work. [23 Sept 1988]
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    100
    An instant classic, an Oscar-worthy showcase for Jeremy Irons, and a tightrope ballet over dicey screen material… A subtle movie - and thus a disturbing one. Like “Vertigo,” “The Night of the Hunter,” “Repulsion” and a few others, it finds beauty in morbidity - then nags you to come back for a second dose. [23 Sept 1988]
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